Show IFE SAVERS WORK MANY IN DISTRESS R RESCUED US C U E D BY HEROIC MEN EMPLOYED BY government 4 fr c durl during ng last fiscal year there wiera A 1376 marine disaster involving them the lives of persons that J j A called the service into activity washington aside saving hundreds of lives and millions of dol do lars worth of property the united states lifesaving life saving service managed to render assistance to many y ate persons in distress the annual report of the superintendent of the service shows that a woman about to be hurled over a bluff was rescued by a life guard while an intoxicated man about to fall off a dock a man who had lost his way in a marsh another who had broken through the y 4 ice fee two others who had climbed 10 0 feet up the face of a cliff and were unable to descend and still another who tried to commit sitt suicide elde came within the vision of the vigilant guards and were saved five automobiles imperiled in marshes or were rescued in the last fiscal year there were 1376 marine disasters involving the 4 lives of persons that called the k lifesaving life saving service into activity sev J enty two vessels were totally lost although only thirty people peris perished lied la im consequence the total value of the property involved in these disasters was 16 the value of the property lost being of the 1376 vessels meeting disaster V the lifesaving life saving service rendered q Z as assistance si stance to fo 1319 valued with their cargoes at X superintendent kimball of the ser vice comments in his annual report upon the remarkable scope of the life saving operations by the use of power lifeboats |