Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 264
THE STORY OF A LIFE-SAVING STATION. 251 and the shot-line will fall across some part ofthe vessel. The crew on the wreck haul in this line, towhich the life-savers have attached a pulleywith a heavier rope through it; both ends ofthis rope are kept on shore. Fastened to this pulley, or tail-block,… … PATROLMEN EXCHANGING THEIR CHECKS. whip-line and haul on the other, and the hawseris pulled out to the wreck ; this hawser alsobears a tally-board, directing that it be madefast two feet above the whip-line. Now there is one endless small rope, and alarge one three and a half inches in…
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