US Life Saving Service, Using the Breeches Buoy

Front:
U.S. LIFE-SAVING SERVICE. Using the Breeches Buoy. 3-2-1911. Printed in Germany.

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Raphael Tuck & Sons' Post Card Series Nº 2424,"U.S. Life Saving Service? ART PUBLISHERS TO THEIR MAJESTIES THE KING AND QUEEN, My Dearest Emmain Tuesday, P. M. 2/26/29/1 USING THE BREECHES BUOY. When the Life- Savers cannot reach a stranded ship with their life boat or surf boat, the favorite method of bringing the imperiled persons ashore is by means of the breeches buoy, patterned after the familiar type of life preserver, and fitting under the arms with a depending support for the body; it is suspended from a trolley that runs on a rope cableway, and is pulled back and forth by a second rope attached to it. ARTISTIC Received your welcome better, & chorld of answered before dour, but Sunday quant to service of Privity, at 4. P. M. & then ain at 7:30, where qu in choir. Last night took flowers to of the theaters, & was asked to s to the show, & did ау atay So ting ht is my first time at leasure.