13131. (reprint) Annual Report of the Chief of the Revenue Marine Bureau for the Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 1873 Showing the Operations of the Revenue Marine and the Life-Saving Service. Wash. 1873. Reprint
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13131. (reprint) Annual Report of the Chief of the Revenue Marine Bureau for the Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 1873 Showing the Operations of the Revenue Marine and the Life-Saving Service. Wash. 1873. Reprint
13131. (reprint) Annual Report of the Chief of the Revenue Marine Bureau for the Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 1873 Showing the Operations of the Revenue Marine and the Life-Saving Service. Wash. 1873. 74p. Soft wraps. This very early report of the Revenue Marine Service details the vessels employed in the service, those under construction or discontinued, expenses, stations, etc. In addition, report includes 56 page report on the operations of the Life-Saving Service which, at that time, was under the Revenue Marine. The first separate Report of the Life-Saving Service would not be published until 1876. Early Life-Saving Service report includes list of stations and Keepers in the three current Districts (Cape Cod, Rhode Island, Long Island and New Jersey), list of proposed stations (in Maine, New Hampshire, Mass., Virginia and North Carolina), report on experiments with life-boat and rocket apparatus, complete Regulations for the Government of the Life-Saving Service, signals for Life-Saving stations, Instructions and Drill in the Use of the Rocket and Mortar Apparatus, Rules for Management of Open Row-Boats in a Surf, Instructions for Saving Drowning Persons…., Forms and Reports, and more. Detailed early information of this service during its beginnings. (M). $23.95