CONTENTS.


CHAPTER I.
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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.