22 SAVING LIFE AT SEA. 



Delays and difficulties in lowering and launching boats, causes of the, 7 



Detitschland, loss of the, 4 



Disasters at sea, 4-1 1 



Discovery and application of the most trustworthy means of saving life, 4 



Distinctive qualities and capabilities of means of saving life at sea, 4, 13, 15 



Efficient life-saving appliances, 17, 18 



Emigrant sailing and steam ships, boats provided for, 5 



England, the head of the maritime nations of the world, 3 



English Mercantile Marine, 3 



Eurydice, loss of the, 4 



Floating mattresses, 14 



Forest, collision in the English Channel between the Avalanche and the, 9 



Gear for lowering and disengaging boats, 15 



Great International Fisheries Exhibition of 1883, lessons with regard to life- 

 saving apparatus to be learned from, 3 



Improved means for saving life at sea, necessity for, 15 



,, ,, mode and authority by which they should be applied, 19, 20 



Inadequate means provided for saving life at sea, 3, 5, 6, 13 



,, ,, illustrations of the, 5-13 



Inventions for saving life at sea, 14, 17 



Kenmure Castle, loss of the, 13, 17 

 Kent, loss of the, 4, 10 



Langrigg Hall, loss of the, 12 

 La Plata, loss of the, 8, 9, 1 5 

 Life-belts, 14 



,, buoys, 14 



,, rafts, 16 



,, jackets, 14 



,, saving appliances, invention of, 14, 17, 18 

 Limited extent of means provided for saving life at sea, 5 

 London, loss of the, 4 

 Lowering and disengaging gear for boats, 15 



Method of launching life-boats at sea, 16, 17 



Mode and authority by which improved means of saving life at sea should be 



applied, 19, 20 

 Mogul, loss of the, 1 7 



Narratives of disasters at sea, 4-13 



,, of the collision between the Avalanche and the Forest in the English 



Channel, 9 



