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Beach Apparatus-Practice

Taken during drill hours at Pacific Coast Life Saving Service, Fort Point Station, Presidio, San Francisco, Cal., Capt. Joseph Hodgson commanding, and illustrates how a crew is rescued from the mast of a sunken vessel. In the foreground the crew is seen engaged in arranging the apparatus; the dynamite mortar is taken from its carriage, set in place, loaded, sighted and fired, projecting the life line over the mast. The shore end of the life line is then made fast to a large hawser, which is hauled out and made fast to the topmast. By means of this hawser a buoy is subsequently sent to the imperiled mariners, which they fasten around their bodies and then slide down the inclined rope to the shore. The film is very clear, the smoke effects are fine and the subject full of action.

F.Z. Maguire & Co 03/1898