shot with a thin line attached will be fired across your
vessel. Get hold of this line as soon as you can, and when you have
secured it let one of the crew be separated from the rest, and, if in
the daytime, wave his hat or his hand, or a flag or handkerchief; or if
at night let a rocket, a blue light, or a gun be fired, or let a light
be shown over the side of the ship, and be again concealed, as a signal
to those on shore.

2. When you see one of the men on shore, separated from the rest, wave
a red flag, or (if at night) show a red light and then conceal it, you
are to haul upon the rocket line until you get a tailed block with an
endless fall rove through it.

3. Make the tail of the block fast to the mast about 15 feet above the
deck, or if your masts are gone, to the _highest secure_ part of the
vessel; and when the tail block is made fast, and the rocket line unbent
from the whip, let one of the crew, separated from the rest, make the
signal required by Article 1 above.

4. As soon as the signal is seen on shore a hawser will be bent to the
whip line, and will be hauled off to the ship by those on shore.

5. When the hawser is got on board, the crew should at once make it
fast to the same part of the ship as the tailed block is made fast to,
only about 18 inches _higher_, taking care that there are no turns of
the whip line round the hawser.

6. When the hawser has been made fast on board, the signal directed by
Article 1 above is to be repeated.

7. The men on shore will then pull the hawser taut, and by means of the
whip line will haul off to the ship a sling life-buoy fitted with
petticoat breeches. The person to be hauled ashore is to get into this
sling, thrusting his legs through the breeches, and resting his armpits
on the lifebuoy. When he is in and secure, one of the crew must be
separated from the rest, and again signal to the shore as directed in
Article I above. The people on shore will then haul the person in the
sling to the shore, and when he has landed will haul back the empty
sling to the ship for others. This operation will be repeated to and
fro until all persons are hauled ashore from the wrecked vessel.

8. It may sometimes happen that the state of the weather and the
condition of the ship will not admit of the hawser being set up, in
which case the sling will be hauled off instead, and the persons to be
rescued will be hauled in it through the surf instead of along the
ha