Index

Abandon-ship package, 23
Abdominal wound, 87, 91
Abosso, 39
ADAMS, JOHN, 15
Agar, 122
Airtanks, 50
Albatross, 122
Alcohol
    calories in, 118
    danger of drinking, 114
ALDRICH, GENE, 74
Alexandra Hoegh, 132
Allan Jackson, 3, 12
ANDERSON, 84
Anglo-Saxon, 50, 87, 112, 113
Antony, 38
Aragon, 69
Arcadian, 69
Arnauld, 17
Arterial bleeding, 88
Artificial respiration, 96-7

BAKER, A.B., 16, 267, 59, 103, 120
BANIGAN, JOHN J., 6, 62, 141-44
Barfonn, 11
Beaufort scale, 125
Bedding, 104
Birds, how to catch, 122
Biscuits, moldy, 13
Bleeding, 90
BLIGH Captain, 104, 122
Blink, 4, 44
Blocks, 42
Blood, salt content of, 113
Boat cover, 34, 51, 54
    caring for in cold weather, 136
Boat hook, 42, 53
BOCKHOFF, Capt. THEODORE, 30
Body heat, 111
Brattice cloth, 22
Breakers, water, 113
BRINGEDAL, Capt., KNUT O., 32
Broken ankle, 89
Broken bones, treating, 92
Broken ribs, 89
Buoyancy, 9, 28
    delays sinking, 30
Bureau of Marine Inspection and Navigation, 5
Burial at sea, 107
Burns, 96
    first degree, 98
    third degree, 98
BUSS, PETER, 144

CAIRNS, Capt. R.H., 111
California, 38
Calories, 116
    in body fat, 118
    in different foods, 117
    in liquor, 118
    in watery foods, 117
Canteen, 74
Canvas preserver, 34
Cardonia, 75
Caribou, 140
CARINI, ALFRED, 79
CARTWRIGHT, ERNEST, 18
Casper, 14
CAVES, WILLIAM, 9, 38, 61, 79
Ceiba, 20
Center of gravity, 42, 55
CHADWICK, GUY F., 30

Chafing pads, 36
China Arrow, 12, 31
Chock, half, 37
Chocks, 36
CHRISTY, Capt. ROBERT E., 83
Chronometer
    stowage of, 54
Cigarettes, 86, 101
Ciltvaira, 31
City of Atlanta, 3
City of New York, 15, 80
City of New York lifeboat, 93, 115
Clothing, 13, 24, 103
    cold-wether, 24, 134
    dead man's, 103
Clouds, cumulus, 59
Coast Guard signals, 59
Cocoa, 118
Cold weather
    care of boat cover in, 136
    care of water breakers in, 136
    clothing for, 134
    danger of unshaven beard in, 134
    freezing food in, 138
    frostbite, 132
    life suit in, 132
    protection of hair, 134
    rationing energy foods in, 118
    using coffee in ,135
    using grease against, 133
    using tobacco in, 134
    wool and fur in, 134
Collamer, 12, 21, 75
Collision, 58
Comal Rio, 10
Compass, 51, 57
    water in, 51
Compass rose, 63
Cooking fireless, 120, 122
Coolness, 19
Cork jacket, 9, 82, 83, 84
    dangers of, 13
Cross bows, 49
Cumulus cloud, 59
Currents, 63

DAVENPORT, Capt. THERON P., 24
Davits
    gravity, 35
    quadrantal, 35
    radial, 35
    sprocket gears, 36
Deck cargo, 39
Depth bombs, 76
Destroyer
    danger of explosion, 76
Dipping lug sail, 48
Discipline, 48
DIXON, HAROLD, 74, 76, 119
DJOUKANOVITCH, General, 93
Doldrums, 127
Downhaul, 49
Dressing wounds, 91
Drills
    abandon-ship, 10
    boat, 9, 17
Drowning, 95

E.H. Blum, 30
E.M. Clark, 10
E.W. Hutton, 14, 83, 84
EGENES, ARNE, 4
Emergency provisions, 25
Energy values, 116
Equipment, inspection of, 22
Erviken, 20
Escapes, emergency, 21
Esso Bolivar, 32
Evros, 12
Exhaustion, 72
Exposure, 93
Eyes
    treating for burns, 97

Falls
    escape by, 42
    paying out, 40
Fatigue and frostbite, 133
Fats
    cause less water loss, 114
    foods rich in, 1198
    importance of eating, 139
Feathering, 44

FERGUSON, FRANK W., 10
FERREIRA, ARMANDO, 93
Fidley grating, 21
Field ice
    drinking water from, 115
Firearms, 46
Firing at sub, 46
First-aid, 13
First-aid kit, 88
Fish, 119
    catching by mirror, 121
    catching by torch, 120
    cooking in lime juice, 120
    dried, 121
    flying, 120
    poisonous, 120
    raw, 120
    tropical, 120
Fish spear, 118
FLAATHAN, Capt. CARL, 14
Flames
    swimming in , 84
    wet towel protection, 83
Flare pistol, 26
Flares, 52
Flashlight, 25, 85
Following sea
    sailing in, 56
Food
    calories in different kinds, 117
    caribou, 140
    concentrated, 74
    double-duty, 112
    dry, 111
    energy values, 1126
    extra, 25, 102
    frozen, 138
    inspection of, 49
    method of dividing up, 105
    Polar bear, 139
    rationing, 49
    rawhide, 121
    seal, 140
    survival time without, 116
    types rich in fat, 118
Food versus thirst, 111
Fractures, 92
Frapping line, 39
Frostbite
    contributing causes, 133
    degrees of, 135
    fatigue, 133
    moisture, 133
    perspiration, 133
    symptoms, 135
    treatment, 135
    wind, 133
FUDSKE, HAWKINS, 18

Gale, riding out, 58
Galway Castle, 69
Gandia, 4
Gangrene, 87
Garmoyle, 39
General cargo
    and buoyancy, 31
Gilbert Islands, 120
GIRARDEAU, Capt. FRANK C., 20
Grab lines, 54
Grain cargo and buoyancy, 31
Grease
    use against cold, 133
Greenwich time, 26
Gripes, 35
    inboard, 36, 37
    outboard, 34, 36, 37
Gulf America, 13, 30
Gulftrade, 75
Gum, 111
Gunshot wounds, 91
Gunwale

HAIR, V.B., 75
HALLIBURTON, VINCENT, 20
Halyard, 48
Handybilly, 37
HANNEGAN, WILLIAM, 93
Harry F. Sinclair, Jr., 9, 79, 80, 83, 84
Haste, 44
    danger of, 18
HANNEVIG, Capt. T.R., 31
Hooks, pelican, 37
Horse latitudes, 127
Hunger, 116
Hysteria, 106

Ice, 4
Icebergs
    drinking water from, 115
Ila, 12
Independence Hall, 11
Injuries, minor
    importance of treating, 100
Inspection of equipment, 12, 22
Irish moss, 122
Island
    finding by cumulus cloud, 59

Jackknife, 25
Jacob Jones, 24, 76
Jacob's ladder, 40
Jam, 25
JANSSEN, P.H., 46
Jellyfish, 120
Jupiter, 12

KELLY, ROBERT EMMETT, 113, 120

La Carrier, 111
LABARGE, ARTHUR, 17
Ladders, engine-room, 21
Lagoon glare, 59
Lamp, lifeboat, 104
Landing, 60
LARSON, JOHN, 12
Latitude, scale of, 64
Laver, 122
Leasowe Castle, 69
Leech, 48
Lemon rind, 111
Licenses, officers', 24
Life light, 23
Life preservers, 44, 71
    used as bedding, 104
Life suits, 4, 10, 22, 85, 132
Lifeboat
    artificial respiration in, 95
    bullet hole in, 46
    center of gravity, 16
    distribution of weight, 42
    getting away from ship, 43
    landing, 50
    lowering, 38, 71
    movement in, 58
    practice in handling, 16
    repairing hole in, 47
    seaworthiness, 22
    swinging out, 34
    tanker, 79
Lifejacket, 21
Lifelines, 51, 71, 80
Liferafts, 73
    blankets for, 75
    distribution of weight on, 75
    double trip release, 75
    in walkways, 77
    keeping to lee of ship, 76
    knife needed on, 75
    lashed to deck, 77
    lubricant for, 75
    method of lowering, 71
    oarlocks for, 74
    propulsion of, 74
    sea anchor for, 76
    trip release, 75
    wire rope lashing, 75
Lime juice
    cooking fish with, 120
Liquor, 103
List, 72
LLOYD, BRYAN, 32
Longitude, scale of, 64
Louvain, 69
Lowering with way on, 38
Lubber's line, 51
Lug sail, 56
    changing to sprit, 128
    speed with, 64
Lumber and buoyancy, 30

Malay, 4, 28
Maloja, 38
Mason jar, 26
Mast, lifeboat, 48, 53
Mast step, screws of, 3
Meat, 138
Medical supplies, 87
MELENDEZ, JOE, 10
Money belt, for food, 74
Monsoons, 127
MOODY, THOMAS RYAN, 24

Morale, 16, 101
MORGAN, LESLIE, 113
MUNDY (Robin Moor0, 46
MURPHY, HUGH, 141

Naco, 198
Nature, 104
Navigating, 62
    finding true course, 63
Night blinding, 123
Nyholt, 4

Oar lashings, 42
Oar, steering, 53
Oarlock, 81
Oars, stowage of, 53
Oarsmen, 43
Oil slick, 81
    swimming in, 82
Oilskins, 25, 103
Oneida, 17
Onions, 25, 49
Ordinary seamen
    responsibility for, 16
Osorio, 7, 65, 144
Otranto, 68
Overboard discharge, 81

Painter, sea, 34, 36
    use in boat, 42
Panic, 5, 26, 46, 79
Pan-Massachusetts, 3, 79, 83
PANTALL, GEORGE, 24
Papers, seamen's, 23
PASTULA, ANTHONY J., 74
Patrick J. Hurley, 75
PECK, ROBERT M., 132
Pellagra, 122
Pemmican soup, 121
PEREIRA, Capt. W.L., 65
Persia, 38
PFISTERER, ALBERT, 13
PHILLIPS, RICHARD, 105
Picric acid gauze, 96
PILBEAN, L. LESLIE, 82
PILCHER, R.H., 87
Pilot chart, 62, 70, 124
    compass rose on, 63
    wind roses on, 63
Plug, 26, 34, 36
Polar bear, 139
Pontoon rafts, 73
Porthole, closing, 85
Potatoes, 25, 49
Preserver, cork, 3
President Lincoln, 68
Propeller
    danger of suction, 44
    suction area, 73
Protein poisoning, 139
Provisions, emergency, 25; (also see Food)
Prusa, 13, 21, 26, 59, 103, 120

Radio shack, tanker, 86
Rail, erecting in boat, 53
Rain, how to collect, 112
Rainfall, 1309
Rainy seasons, 130
RAMOS, ROSENDO, 25
Rationing, 49
    effect on morale, 102
    of liquor, 103
    of water, 50
Rations
    for water, size of, 113
    on liferafts, 74
Rawhide, 121
Recreation, 105
Reef, when hoisting sail, 55
Reefing, 57
Releasing gear, 37, 40, 42
Republic, 3, 25
Reuben James, 76
Robin Moor, 7, 46, 58, 62, 65, 105, 111
    abstract of voyage of #4 lifeboat, 141-44
Rockets, 26
Rough sea, sailing in, 58
Rowing
    feathering oars, 43
    in double-banked boat, 43
    in heavy sea, 43
    proper method, 43
    stroke oar, 43

Rubilene, 77
Rudder, 12, 34

Saber, 10
Safety gears, 5
Sail
    adding to, 54
    collecting water with, 112
    dipping lug, 56
    how to change lug to sprit, 129
    reef, 55
    setting, 48
Sail bag, 54
Sailing in following sea, 56
Salmon, 11
SAMPSON, NORMAN LEO, 22
Santa Anna, 69
SCHWARTZ, JULIUS L., 12
Scurvy, 123
Sea anchor, 44, 57, 76
    how to make, 52
Sea water
    effect of drinking, 113
    freezing to get fresh water, 114
    salt in, 113
Seal, 140
Seamanship
    importance of practice, 15
    open-boat, 55
Seaweed, 119, 122
Setting sail, 49
Sextant stowage of, 54
Shark, 21, 119
Sheave, 49
Sheet, 58
Shellfire, 72
Shellfish, 119
SHERLOCK, JAMES, 30
Ship's meetings, 14
Ships
    lost in 1917, 17
    lost in peacetime, 17
Shock, 72, 93, 94
Shrapnel, 87
    wounds from, 91
Sinking time, 32
Skates, 6, 39
Slackness, 16
SLIVJAK, VINCENT A., 11
SMITH, JOHN, J., 14, 82, 85
SMITH, LEONARD, 30
Sodium bicarbonate solution, 96
Soldiers at sea, 69
Spreaders, 54
Spritsail, 127-30
Squalls, 51, 130
    sailing in, 57
St. Paul's Rocks, 141
Steering oar, 53, 81
Sterilizing a knife, 91
Stern fast, 39
Storm, handling boat in, 55
Storm oil, 39, 59
Stretchers, 23
Strongback, 34
Suction, 20
    from propellers, 44, 75
Suet stew, 121
Suicide, 105
Sulfanilamide, 87
    powder, 91, 92
Sulfathiazole tablets, 91
Sunburn, 97
Sunburn lotions, 98
SUNDBY, HANS, 20, 22
Sunshine
    safe time of exposure to, 97
Sunstroke, 98, 99
Surf, rowing through, 60
SWANK, WALTER, 18
Swimming
    in flames, 84
    in oil slick, 82
Swinging out
    boats on high side, 35
    boats on low side, 36

Tacoma, 61
Tanker rafts, 73
Tankers
    danger of cork jackets for tankermen, 83
    escaping from flames, 83
    ladder, 80
    lifeboat capacity, 80

Tankers, (Cont.)
    lifeboats should be inboard, 79
    liferafts, 81
    lowering boats, 80
    oarlocks for boats, 81
    oil slick, 83
    overboard discharge, danger from, 81
    painter, 80
    radio shack on, 86
    raft releasing gear, 81
    raft skids, 81
    sheaf knives for crew, 84
    steaming tanks, 85
    steering oar for boats, 81
Tannic acid, 96
TAPSCOTT, ROBERT, 112
TAYLOR (Robin Moor), 141
Tenon, 53
Textbook, 15
Theobromine, 118
Thirst
    artificial, 110
    effect of fatty foods on , 114
    temporary relief from, 111
    true, 110
TIDWELL, JOSEPH PAUL, 76
Tiller, 55
    made from spreaders, 54
Time for escape, 26
Toggle, 37
Toilet paper, 26
Tomatoes, 25
Toothache, 99
Toothbrush, 104
Torpedo fumes, 83
Tourniquet, 88, 90
Traction, 92
Trade winds, 125
Transports, troop
    casualties on, 68
    correcting list on, 72
    knowing your quarters, 70
    life preservers, 71
    lifeboats, 71
    lifelines, 71
    liferafts, 71
    lowering lifeboats, 71
    officers on, 70
    orders in disaster, 70
    position when abandoned, 69
    rations, 71
    shellfire, 72
True course, 63
Turnbuckles, 12
Turnips, 25
Tuscania, 68

Ulysses, 82
Underwear, 13, 71
Urine, danger of drinking, 113

Variation, 64
Vegetables, 25
    water content of, 112
Vestris, 36, 39
Vitamin A, 123
Vitamin deficiencies, 122
VORBERG Capt. ERLING, 11
VOSS, PAUL, 75

W.E. Hutton, 82
WALLACE, R.G., 12
Watches, 49
Water
    charged, 102
    effects of going without, 110
    estimating supply, 50
    from body fats, 114
    from field ice, 115
    from icebergs, 115
    from sea water ice, 114
    how to freshen, 102
    in compass, 51
    in different vegetables, 112
    rain, collecting, 50, 77
    rationing, 50
    salt, effect of drinking, 113
    size of rations, 113
    storing, 51
Water breaker, 50, 113
    caring for in cold weather, 136
Water tanks, 12

Weather
    squally, 57
    wind, 57
Wedges, 54
WELMANN, RUDOLPH C., 21
Westerlies, 128
Whistle, 23
Winds, 63
    Beaufort scale of, 125
    limits of trades, 126-27
    monsoons, 127
    Roaring Forties, 128
    trade, 125
    veering, 57
    Westerlies, 128
Windsail, of brattice cloth, 22
Wire basket for wounded, 23
Wounds
    abdominal, 91
    gunshot, shrapnel, 91

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