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Title: Popular electricity magazine in plain English
Year: 1912 (1910s)
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Subjects: Electricity
Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : Popular Electricity Pub. Co.
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in any seaway, no matter how rough, would be an invaluable addition to the gear of any ship doing patrol duty in the employ of the United States government. Consequently an appropriation was made and the revenue cutters Acushnet and Snohomish were equipped with guns of this type, the invention of F. Granger Hall, of Dansville, N. Y. Since that time the Acushnet stationed at Woods Hole, Mass., and the Snohomish stationed at Port Angeles, Wash., have taken in tow many wrecks and thus saved countless lives. In tests these two cutters have thrown ten consecutive shots with accuracy into the face of a roaring gale for distances of more than 2000 feet.Halls apparatus consists of a bronze gun which can be attached to the rail of a ship at any point, fore or aft. It is so easily loaded and fired that it can be operated by comparatively inexperienced men. An ordinary brass cartridge, weighing 20 pounds, to which the line is attached, is slipped into the breech. This line, by the way, is contained in specially
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devised cylinders of different sizes for different uses. The gun can be shifted to any direction or angle of elevation necessary, and two minutes after tin- gun is set on 1170 POPULAR ELECTRICITY and the WORLDS ADVANCE the rail, the shot is carrying the lineout and over the distressed vessel. When communication has thus once been established, the breeches buoy orlife car is whipped back and forth until every soul on the unfortunate vessel is saved. To have accomplished this, it is not necessary for anyone to leave the deck of the rescuing vessel. An ordinary beach gun could not be used because of its recoil. In the guns used by the Snohomish and Acushnet, the recoil has been overcome by a special device so the gun may be mounted on the rail, trained, aimed and fired like a modern naval gun without moving. Halls gun shoots a line over the wreck and the men aboard the wreck haul in the leader, make it fast, and then pass the wire cable which carries the breeches buoy from the mast-head to the rescuing ve

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