How did Kimball organize the service?
A. Kimball astutely realized that lack of organization, competence, and discipline had been the downfall of prior life-saving efforts. He set out to create a quasi-military organization that would rectify past failures. Kimball produced a 45 page book entitled “Regulations for the Government of the Life-Saving Service of the United States” that contained regulations for every aspect of the organization and operation of the service. So well done, it received only three revisions during the entire history of the Life-Saving Service.
