RECAPITULATION 59. Remain by the wreck until assistance arrives from shore, unless your vessel shows signs of immediately breaking up. If not discovered immediately by the patrol, burn rockets, flare-ups, or other lights; or, if the weather be foggy, fire guns. Take particular care that there are no turns of the whip line around the hawser before making the hawser fast. Send the women, children, helpless persons, and passengers ashore first. Make yourself thoroughly familiar with these instructions, and remember that on your coolness and strict attention to them will greatly depend the chances of success in bringing you and your people safely to land. TABLE III LIST OF LIFE-SAVING DISTRICTS AND STATIONS ON THE Muskallonge Lake Mich. Grand Marais Mich. Marquette Ship Canal. Mich. Duluth Minn. Near mouth of Sucker River, Lake West of harbor entrance. Mich. Near light, Lake Superior. Old Portage Lake Ship Canal, mile Frankfort Mich. Manistee Mich. Ludington. Pentwater White River Muskegon Mich. Grand Haven. Mich. Holland. Mich. South Haven Mich. Saint Joseph Mich. Michigan City. Ind. Grand Pointe au Sable Mich. Mich. South side of the entrance of harbor. North side of the entrance of harbor. 1 mile south of light. North side of the entrance of harbor. North side of the entrance of harbor, North side of the entrance of harbor. In the harbor, south side. North side of the entrance of harbor. East side of the entrance of harbor. About 7 miles S by E of Chicago River In the harbor. On the Northwestern University In the harbor, on Washington Island. CARRYING CAPACITY OF LIFE BOATS 60. An applicant for a license as pilot is required to compute the number of passengers that may be carried by the life boats. This is done by the rule given below, which is taken from the "General Rules and Regulations Prescribed by the Board of Supervising Inspectors of Steam Vessels for 1900." 61. The carrying capacity of all life boats shall be determined by the following rule: Rule. - Multiply the outside length, outside width, and inside depth together, and the product by .6; divide the product by 10 for ocean, lake, bay, or sound steamers; and, for river steamers, divide the product by 7; the quotient will be the number of persons that such a boat is allowed to carry. ILLUSTRATION.-The carrying capacity of a boat 20 feet in length, 5 feet in breadth, and 3 feet in depth, will be determined as follows: For ocean, lake, bay, or sound steamers, 62. Regulations Relating to Life Boats. - All life boats must be substantially built. Metallic life boats must be constructed of good iron or other suitable metal, not less in thickness than No. 18 wire gauge (Birmingham standard). All life boats must have life lines securely fastened to their gunwales, and a good rope painter of suitable size and length properly attached; and every life boat must be supplied with not less than four oars, and kept in good condition for immediate use. All life boats must, if possible, be carried on cranes, or davits, but if it is not possible so to carry all the life boats required, the remainder must be stowed near at hand, so as to be easily and readily launched when required. THE STATION BILL 63. The station bill designates the place and duty of every man on board a steamer, when about to abandon ship or save human life. It gives the name of the officer in charge of each boat, but the crew, except the stroke oar, is designated by numbers. Copies of it must be framed and exhibited in several conspicuous places, such as the saloons, hallways, engine room, etc. Below is given the usual form of this important document: |
