Download or read book Life saving Service and Revenue cutter Service written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The U S Life Saving Service written by Ralph C. Shanks and published by Costano Books. This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Subtitled Heroes, Rescues and Architecture of the Early Coast Guard, this very complete record of the people, technology, architecture and exploits of the U.S. Life-Saving Service is a large-format book illustrated with 446 photographs and maps. It is especially strong on the wonderful and regionally varied architecture of the Service's stations, of which there were more than today's mariners or beachcombers can imagine -- 41 on the New Jersey coast, 31 on Lake Michigan, 13 on Cape Cod alone. In the last half of the nineteenth century, when coasting vessels numbered in the tens of thousands, the stations and their beach patrols were a necessity, and the surfmen managed dramatic rescues, many of which are recounted here.
Download or read book Expenditures of Revenue Cutter Service and Life Saving Service Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury Transmitting Statement of Expenditures Including the Expenses of the Revenue Cutter Service and the Life Saving Service as Separate Organizations from July 1 1914 to January 28 1915 the Date of Approval of Coast Guard Act Together with the Expenses of the Coast Guard from the Date of Creation of Said Act to June 30 1915 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Expenditures in the Treasury Department and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book That Others Might Live written by Dennis L. Noble and published by US Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1878 to 1915 the U.S. Life-Saving Service was a small federal maritime organization that carried out amazing rescues of those in distress close to shore. Working from small stations scattered along the coastlines of the United States and using only oar-powered boats, none longer than 36 feet, crewmembers came to be known as "storm warriors" as they pulled off rescues that almost defied belief. Considered one of the most valorous organizations ever run by the U.S. government, the service carried out thousands of rescues, and many of its men lost their lives in the effort to save others. Yet since its incorporation into the U.S. Coast Guard in 1915, the feats of this life-saving service have been largely confused with those of its successor or forgotten altogether. Now for the first time in a full-length book, the author presents an operational history of the U.S. Life-Saving Service and places the agency within a national context, shedding light on a little-known aspect of maritime history. The book includes numerous photographs and other illustrations of the people, equipment, and exploits of this service and covers many out-of-the-way stations about which little has been published. Dennis Noble also examines the formation of the service, its organization, and its rescue equipment and explores the lives and routines of early watermen. In a clear and precise style, he describes how rescue efforts were conducted and includes gripping stories of the fate of such schooners as the George Taulane and J. H. Hartzell. These legendary sea rescues that presaged the modern-day Coast Guard were previously addressed only on a local or regional basis.
Download or read book United States Revenue Cutter Service written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Life Saving Service and Revenue Cutter Service written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considers (63) S. 2337, (63) S. 760.
Download or read book Register of the Officers and Vessels of the Revenue Cutter Service of the United States written by United States. Revenue-Cutter Service and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Organization and Methods of the United States Life saving Service written by United States. Life-Saving Service and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Coast Guards and International Maritime Law Enforcement written by Suk Kyoon Kim and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2020-07-30 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores various aspects of the roles and responsibilities of coast guards, which are increasingly becoming significant today, and sheds light on their authority and limitations in the course of maritime law enforcement. It is unique in its unraveling of all facets of coast guards, focusing on their law enforcement authority and limitations from a practical perspective. It details the principles and procedures that coast guard officers are required to follow in the course of international law at sea by examining treaties, conventions, international rulings, and theories. The text employs a comparative study of national coast guards and a review of cases concerning international maritime law enforcement. It provides practical insights into coast guards and their law enforcement, based on the author’s career experience and service as a Commissioner General in the Korea Coast Guard. As such, this book will serve as a good reference in practice and contribute to the formulation of guidelines and criteria of maritime law enforcement of coast guards.
Download or read book Polar Icebreakers in a Changing World written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2007-03-14 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States has enduring national and strategic interests in the polar regions, including citizens living above the Arctic circle and three year-round scientific stations in the Antarctic. Polar icebreaking ships are needed to access both regions. Over the past several decades, the U.S. government has supported a fleet of four icebreakersâ€"three multi-mission U.S. Coast Guard ships (the POLAR SEA, POLAR STAR, and HEALY) and the National Science Foundation's PALMER, which is dedicated solely to scientific research. Today, the POLAR STAR and the POLAR SEA are at the end of their service lives, and a lack of funds and no plans for an extension of the program has put U.S. icebreaking capability at risk. This report concludes that the United States should continue to support its interests in the Arctic and Antarctic for multiple missions, including maintaining leadership in polar science. The report recommends that the United States immediately program, budget, design, and construct two new polar icebreakers to be operated by the U.S. Coast Guard. The POLAR SEA should remain mission capable and the POLAR STAR should remain available for reactivation until the new polar icebreakers enter service. The U.S. Coast Guard should be provided sufficient operations and maintenance budget to support an increased, regular, and influential presence in the Arctic, with support from other agencies. The report also calls for a Presidential Decision Directive to clearly align agency responsibilities and budgetary authorities.
Download or read book Annual Report of the United States Revenue Cutter Service written by United States. Revenue-Cutter Service and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Annual Report of the United States Life Saving Service written by United States. Life-Saving Service and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Annual Report of the Operations of the United States Life Saving Service for the Fiscal Year Ending written by United States. Life-Saving Service and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sand Pounders written by Robert F. Bennett and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In January 1915, two Treasury Department agencies merged to form the United States Coast Guard. One of these agencies, the United States Life-Saving Service (USLSS) had been created in August 1848 for the purpose of rescuing people who were ship-wrecked on the coast of New Jersey. That federal organization, manned primarily by volunteers, was reorganized in 1870 to included paid surfmen who patrolled our coastline during stormy seasons. Eventually the scope of the USLSS included the nation's Atlantic, Great Lakes, Gulf of Mexico, Pacific, and Alaskan coats. For 44 years, the surfmen of the USLSS dutifully pounded their feet along mostly sandy pathways in all kinds of weather, occasionally discovering a vessel in distress and, then, acting to initiate the rescue operations that would demand their fullest participation. And, sometimes, even their sacrifice. These surfmen have been called "sandpounders." It was a title that they could wear proudly. This is the story of that organization as gleaned from the official Annual Reports of the USLSS and the correspondence files of the National Archives.
Download or read book Authority for Detailing Two Officers of the Revenue Cutter Service for Duty in the Office of the Life Saving Service Letter s from the Secretary of the Treasury and from the General Superintendent of the Life Saving Service Detailing Two Officers of the Revenue Cutter Service for Duty in the Office of the Life Saving Service April 5 1906 Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and Ordered to be Printed written by United States. Congress. Senate and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Annual Report of the United States Life saving Service for the Years 1880 written by United States. Life-Saving Service and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Annual Report of the United States Life Saving Service written by United States. Life-Saving Service and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
