delivered. But its assistance is readily offered to all other vessels, what- 

 ever their nationality, and it is given whenever the need is made known. 

 Their sick and injured are given the same care and hospitalization as the 

 French fishermen. Since its foundation, the Workers of the Sea have taken 

 as a motto the magnificent profession of faith of Pasteur: "One does not 

 ask the unfortunate: 'What nationality, what religion are you?' One says 

 to him: 'You suffer and that is enough; come to me and I will help you. '" 



Although the doctors on the hospital ships do not possess the authority 

 invested in the commanders of the Naval Station vessels, they have contrib- 

 uted greatly to a better observation of the rules of hygiene aboard the New- 

 foundland vessels. 



Finally, besides the mission of assistance for which they were espe- 

 cially conceived, the hospital ships have rescued and saved, in the course 

 of their incessant cruising on the banks, 426 fishermen shipwrecked or lost 

 at sea in dories. During the season of 1935, under the polar circle off 

 Greenland, the doctor of the Saint - Yves was able to bring back to life two 

 men found almost frozen aboard a drifting dory. 



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