Life Preserver
one who, or that which, preserves, or is intended to preserve, life; specifically, (1) a contrivance to enable a person to float in water in Island, and when elected to Congress in 1848 he introduced a bill for the relief of shipwrecked persons. The result of the passage of this bill was the placing of a few live-saving stations between Sandy Hook and Little Egg Harbor, N. J. From this beginning has grown LIGAMENT the splendid system which now extends along the entire coast and lake lines of the United States.
On the Great Lakes the life-saving stations are kept open from the beginning of navigation in April to its close in December. On the Atlantic Coast they are open from Aug. 1 to June 1, while on the Pacific Coast they are open the year round. In January, 1915, the service was merged with the Revenue Cutter Service and Coast Guard.
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