CONTENTS.
| CHAPTER I. | |
| PAGE | |
| How the Shipwrecked fared in Days of Old, andthe Growth of Sympathy on their behalf | [1] |
| CHAPTER II. | |
| Wreckers | [13] |
| CHAPTER III. | |
| The Inventor of the Life-boat | [19] |
| CHAPTER IV. | |
| The Growth of the Life-boat Movement | [23] |
| CHAPTER V. | |
| The Invention and Launching of the Prize Life-boat | [32] |
| CHAPTER VI. | |
| The Ramsgate Life-boat at Work—Storm Warriors to the Rescue | [48] |
| CHAPTER VII. | |
| The Rescue of the Crew of the "Samaritano," and the Return | [66] |
| CHAPTER VIII. | |
| A Night on the Goodwin Sands | [82] |
| CHAPTER IX. | |
| The Wreck abandoned, and the Life-boat despaired of | [94] |
| CHAPTER X. | |
| Signals of Distress—Out in the Storm | [116] |
| CHAPTER XI. | |
| The Emigrant Ship | [134] |
| CHAPTER XII. | |
| The Rescue of the Crew of the "Demerara," and the Emigrants' Welcome at Ramsgate | [149] |
| CHAPTER XIII. | |
| The Wreck of the "Mary"—Gales abroad | [161] |
| CHAPTER XIV. | |
| The Wreck of the "Mary"—A Struggle for Dear Life | [171] |
| CHAPTER XV. | |
| Deal Beach | [192] |
| CHAPTER XVI. | |
| The Loss of the "Linda," and the Race to the Rescue | [203] |
| CHAPTER XVII. | |
| The Rescue of the Crew of the "Amoor" | [214] |
| CHAPTER XVIII. | |
| The Rescue of the Crew of the "Effort"—The Dangers of Hovelling | [224] |
| CHAPTER XIX. | |
| The Hovellers, or Salvors Saved. The "Princess Alice" Hovelling Lugger | [234] |
| CHAPTER XX. | |
| The Saving of "La Marguerite"—(A Hovel) | [254] |
| CHAPTER XXI. | |
| The Wreck brought in | [265] |
| CHAPTER XXII. | |
| The Wreck of the "Providentia" | [275] |
| CHAPTER XXIII. | |
| Hardly Saved | [287] |
| CHAPTER XXIV. | |
| Saved at Last—The Fatal Goodwin Sands | [298] |
| CHAPTER XXV. | |
| Saved at Last—We will not go Home without them | [310] |
| CHAPTER XXVI. | |
| Saved at Last—"Victory or Death" | [320] |
| CHAPTER XXVII. | |
| Of some of the Life-boat Men | [333] |
| CHAPTER XXVIII. | |
| Conclusion—The Life-boat Institution | [344] |
STORM WARRIORS.