SURVIVAL AT SEA book (by C.H. WRIGHT) [1971]

 Hello everyone !!

Extra Gear Kit on Ship : (Pg # 31-32)

Blankets, tinned milk, milk tablets, fruit, biscuits and sweets. Notebook, pencil, waterproof watch, flashlight, batteries & bulbs, palm, needles, sail twine, pyrotechnics (rocket/flares/ smoke flares), plastic bags, pocket radio receiver. 

Lifeboat Survival Kit :

Ration, safety knife, can-openers, needles, cotton, nylon string, repair kit, med-kit, signal flares, rocket signal flare, Cyalume sticks (chemical light), radio receiver, flashlight, compass.



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