Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-07-05
REVENUE CUTTERS GET
LITTLE SUMMER REST
Busy Aiding Vessels When They
Are Supposed to Be on Dress
Parade.

Though midsummer is the time when
the vessels of the revenue cutter service
are supposed to have but little to do in
the way of assisting vessels in distress,
reports received from commanding Off
GERS of the cutters on both the Atlantic
and Pacific coast show that there is
always need for their services in saving
lives and marine property.
To the little cutter Guide belongs the
credit of having saved two men from
drowning in the surf off Coney Island.
n. Y. Joseph Williams and ]. E. Nor
resey We're in canoe when it upset. The
attention Of the men on the Guide was
attracted by cries ashore and, NOV
ing in, the men were discovered.
They were exhausted when the cutter
reached them and took them aboard, and
could be put ashore
The little cutter Guard, doing duty on
Pugit sound. Washington, found the
launch Wasp, with disabled engine and
drifting on a lee shore at Posey Island,
Puget sound. She was taken into a safe
harbor. The vessel was bound from Bill
bingham. Wash, to Victoria. B. c.
Aid for Drifting Barges.
ton, the cutter Snohomish found the
barges Henrietta II. and Diamond Lum-
Der Company, No. l, drifting off Port
Angeles. the tug that had them in tow
being unable to hold them in the heavy
gale blowing at the time. The services
of the Snohomish were offered and gladly
accepted, and with her aid the barses
were taken into smooth water, where the
tug was able to take care of them.
Coming nearer home, the cutter Apache.
stationed on the Chesapeake. is in the
Choptank river to assist several vessels
that were carried ashore there in the
big storm Of week ago. From the
Choptank she will visit other tributaries
of the bay to aid schooners and small
craft known to be in trouble a result
of the storm. The cutter Gresham was
sent from Boston to the aid of the
schooner yacht Virgie. reported stranded
on the Massachusetts coast near Cape
Cod, but before the cutter reached the
vessel she was fioated by a tugboat and
taken into harbor.
In the past week the cutter Acushnet,
on the Marthas Vineyard and Nantucket
Island station. floated the schooner Pen
mel from off East Chop, Vineyard sound,
and the sloop Reita from off No Mans
Land. Both vessels were assisted into
harbor and the cutter returned to her
station at Woods Hole. Mass.
Needed in Mexican Gulf.
Down in the Gulf of Mexico the cutter
Window found work to do. The power
boat Hortense started from Galveston
for a bay port. but broke down soon
after leaving Galveston. She was found
in distress by the Window and a launch
from the cutter was sent to her aid. Her
engine was found disabled and she was
towed to alongside the cutter. The engi-
neers of the Window made repairs to the
engine but 1t did not work satisfactorily
end the vessel was taken back to Gal
weston.
Not only do the cutters have to relieve
vessels with disabled machinery. or which
are stranded or in trouble from storms,
but they are called upon to furnish sup
plies of various kinds. This was the
nature of the assistance rendered the
American schooner Ethel Zane of San
Francisco by the cutter Tahoma. at Una
laska, Alaska. The supplies she needed
were such as could not be obtained at
the Alaskan settlement.
Summer time Is the season when the
cutters are supposed to look pretty and
to show their society manners. but from
the work done in the past week in aiding
vessels in trouble 1t looks as if some of
them do not have time to do anything
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