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LIFE-BOAT, AND LIFESAVING SERVICE

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as often happens, or are injured or sic remedies are furnished them. Dry clothing, supplied by the Women s elief Association, is also furnished to survivors, which the National R

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however, have now been transformed into power boats without the sacrifice of any of their essential qualities. The installation of power is effected by introducing a 25 H.P. four-cycle gasoline motor, weighing with its fittings, tanks, &c., about 800 lb. The engine is P 15 »

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FIG. 1o.—American Power Life-boat. Several types of light open surf-boats are used, adapted to the installed in the after air chamber, with the starting crankiqrevertjsing °' ~ t t t em rom

special requirements of the different localities and occasions. They d r vided with

are built of cedar, from 23 to 27 ft . long, an are p o end air chambers and longitudinal air cases on each side under the thwarts

clutches, &c., recessed into the bulkhead to pro ec accidents. These boats attain a speed of from 7 to 9 m. an hour, and have proved extremely efficient. A new power life-boat (Hg. IO) on somewhat improved lines, 36 ft. in length, and equipped with In,

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Sell'-righting and self-bailing life-boats, patterned after those a 35-40 H.P. gasoline engine, promises to prove still more efficient used in England and other countries, have heretofore been used at A number of surf-boats have also been equipped with gasoline ~ I 'n, s of from S to 7 H.P., for light and quick work, with very most of the Lake stations and at points on the ocean coast wlere engi e

they can be readily launched from ways. Most of these boafs, satisfactory results.

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