Storm Warriors; or, Life-Boat Work on the Goodwin Sands
RECTOR OF HOLY TRINITY, RAMSGATE; AUTHOR OF THE RAMSGATE LIFE-BOAT, IN MACMILLAN'S MAGAZINE.
FOURTH THOUSAND.
LONDON: MACMILLAN AND CO. 1875.
LONDON: PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS. STAMFORD STREET AND CHARING CROSS.
TO THE MOST BELOVED MEMORY OF MY LATE FATHER, JOHN GILMORE, Commander, R.N., AND TO THE MOST BELOVED MEMORY OF MY LATE ELDEST BROTHER, ROBERT GRAHAM GILMORE, Capt., R.N.R., TWO MOST BRAVE, AND SKILFUL, AND TRUE, AND LOVING-HEARTED SAILORS, WHO HAVE PASSED IN FAITH AND PEACE TO THE HAVEN THAT THEY HUMBLY SOUGHT, I INSCRIBE THIS WORK.
J. G.
John Gilmore
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PREFACE.
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I. HOW THE SHIPWRECKED FARED IN DAYS OF OLD, AND THE GROWTH OF SYMPATHY ON THEIR BEHALF.
CHAPTER II. WRECKERS.
CHAPTER III. THE INVENTOR OF THE LIFE-BOAT.
CHAPTER IV. THE GROWTH OF THE LIFE-BOAT MOVEMENT.
CHAPTER V. THE INVENTION AND LAUNCHING OF THE PRIZE LIFE-BOAT.
CHAPTER VI. THE RAMSGATE LIFE-BOAT AT WORK.—STORM WARRIORS TO THE RESCUE.
CHAPTER VII. THE RESCUE OF THE CREW OF THE "SAMARITANO," AND THE RETURN.
CHAPTER VIII. A NIGHT ON THE GOODWIN SANDS.
CHAPTER IX. THE WRECK ABANDONED, AND THE LIFE-BOAT DESPAIRED OF.
CHAPTER X. SIGNALS OF DISTRESS—OUT IN THE STORM.
CHAPTER XI. THE EMIGRANT SHIP.
CHAPTER XII. THE RESCUE OF THE CREW OF THE "DEMERARA," AND THE EMIGRANTS' WELCOME TO RAMSGATE.
CHAPTER XIII. THE WRECK OF THE "MARY"—GALES ABROAD.
FOOTNOTE:
CHAPTER XIV. THE WRECK OF THE "MARY"—A STRUGGLE FOR DEAR LIFE.
CHAPTER XV. DEAL BEACH.
CHAPTER XVI. THE LOSS OF THE "LINDA," AND THE RACE TO THE RESCUE.
CHAPTER XVII. THE RESCUE OF THE CREW OF THE "AMOOR."
CHAPTER XVIII. THE RESCUE OF THE CREW OF THE "EFFORT"—THE DANGERS OF HOVELLING.
CHAPTER XIX. THE HOVELLERS, OR SALVORS, SAVED. THE "PRINCESS ALICE" HOVELLING LUGGER.
CHAPTER XX. THE SAVING OF "LA MARGUERITE"—(A HOVEL).
CHAPTER XXI. THE WRECK BROUGHT IN.
CHAPTER XXII. THE WRECK OF THE "PROVIDENTIA."
CHAPTER XXIII. HARDLY SAVED.
CHAPTER XXVII. OF SOME OF THE LIFE-BOAT MEN.
CHAPTER XXVIII. THE NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION.
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