80-G-40696:  The Navy’s new official fishing kit, which is being placed in life-saving craft carried by all U.S. Navy ships and all U.S. merchant vessels of 3,000 tons or more.  Designed by a group of well-known fishermen serving as advisors to the Life Saving Board of the Navy and Coast Guard, the kit consists of a “bib-apron” canvas roll with a dozen pockets containing fishing rigs of various types, a small harpoon, a knife and a whetstone equipped with buoyant handles, a pair of canvas gloves, and directions printed on waterproof paper to assist lifeboat occupants in the attempt to catch fish and birds at sea.  The whole kit is packed into a waterproof, key-opening can.  A similar kit, lighter in weight, has been designed for airplane floats.  Photograph released February 1943.   U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.   (2016/06/07).
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