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CHAPTER XVII. 



"MAN THE LIFE-BOAT!" (continued}. 



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A Portuguese Brig on the Sands Futile Attempts to get her off Sudden Break-up Great Danger to the Life-boat 

 Great Probability of being Crushed An Old Boatman's Feelings The Life-boat herself on the Goodwin- 

 Safe at Last Gratitude of the Portuguese Crew A Blaze of Light seen from Deal Fatal Delay Twenty-eight 

 Lives Lost A dark December Night The almost-deserted Wreck of the ProvidentiaA Plucky Captain 

 An awful Episode The Mate beaten to Death Hardly saved The poor little Cabin-boy's Rescue Another 

 Wreck on the Sands Many Attempts to rescue the Crew Determination of the Boatmen Victory or Death ! 

 The Aid Steamer nearly wrecked A novel and successful Experiment Anchoring on Board The Crew Saved . 225 



CHAPTER XVIII. 



"WRECKING" AS A PROFESSION. 



Probable Fate of a rich Vessel in the Middle Ages Maritime Laws of the Period The King's Privileges Coeur de 

 Lion and his Enactments The Roles d'Oleron False Pilots and Wicked Lords Stringent Laws of George II. 

 The Homeward-bound Vessel- Plotting Wreckers Lured Ashore "Dead Men Tell no Tales" A Series of 

 Facts Brutality to a Captain and his Wife Fate of a Plunderer Defence of a Ship against Hundreds of 

 Wreckers Another Example Ship Boarded by Peasantry Police Attacked by Thousands Cavalry Charge the 

 Wreckers Hundreds of Drunken Plunderers A Curious Tract of the Last Century A Professional Wrecker's 

 Arguments A Candid Bahama Pilot 235 



CHAPTER XIX. 



"HOVELLING" v. WRECKING. 



The Contrast The "Hovellers" defended Their Services The Case of the Albion Anchors and Cables wanted by 

 a disabled Vessel Lugger wrecked on the Beach Dangers of the Hoveller's Life Nearly swamped by the heavy 

 Seas Loss of a baling Bowl, and what it means Saved on an American Ship The Lost Found A brilliant 

 example of Life-saving at Bideford The Small Rewards of the Hoveller's Life The case of La Marguerite 

 Nearly wrecked in Port Hovellers v. Wreckers " Let's all start fair !" Praying for Wrecks 215 



CHAPTER XX. 



SHIPS THAT "PASS BY ON THE OTHER SIDE." 



Captains and Owners Reasons for apparent Inhumanity A Case in Point The Wreck of the Northflcet Run down 

 by the MurilloA Noble Captain The Vessel Lost, with a Hundred Ships near her One within Three Hundred 

 Yards Official Inquiry Loss of the Schiller Two Hundred Drowned in one heavy Sea Life-saving Apparatus 

 of little use Lessons of the Disaster Wreck of the Deutschland Harwich blamed unjustly The good Tug- 

 boat Liverpool and her Work Necessity of proper Communication with Light-houses and Light-ships The 

 new Signal Code and old Semaphores 261 



CHAPTER XXI. 



A CONTRAST THE SHIP ON FIRE ! SWAMPED AT SEA. 



The Loss of the Amazon A Noble Vessel Description of her Engine-rooms Her Boats Heating of the Machinery 

 The Ship on Fire Communication cut off The Ominous Fire-bell The Vessel put before the Wind A Headlong 

 Course Impossibility of Launching the Boats" Every Man for Himself ! "The Boats on Fire Horrible Cases 

 of Roasting Boats Stove in and Upset The Remnant of Survivors" Passing by on the Other Side " Loss of a 

 distinguished Author A Clergyman's Experiences A Graphic Description Without Food, Water, Oars, Helm, 

 or Compass Blowing-up of the Amazon " A Sail ! "Saved on the Dutch Galliot Back from the Dead Review 

 of the Catastrophe A Contrast Loss of the London Anxiety to get Berths on her The First Disaster Terrible 

 Weather Swamped by the Seas The Furnaces Drowned out Efforts to replace a Hatchway Fourteen Feet of 

 Water in the Hold" Boys, you may say your Prayers ! "Scene in the Saloon The Last Prayer Meeting- 

 Worthy Draper Incidents Loss of an Eminent Tragedian His Last Efforts The Bottle Washed Ashore 

 Nineteen Saved out of Two Hundred and Sixty-three Souls on Board Noble Captain Martin The London's 

 Last Plunge The Survivors picked up by an Italian Barque 278 



CHAPTER XXII. 



EARLY STEAMSHIP WRECKS AND THEIR LESSONS. 



The Rothsay Castle An Old Vessel, unfit for Sea Service A Gay Starting Drifting to the Fatal Sands The Steamer 

 Strikes A Scene of Panic Lost within easy reach of Assistance An Imprudent Pilot Statements of Survivors 

 A Father and Son parted and re-united Heartrending Episodes -The Other Side: Saved by an Umbrella Loss 

 of the Killarncy-Severe Weather The Engine-fires Swamped At the Mercy of the Waves On the Rocks 

 The Crisis -Half the Passengers and Crew on an Isolated Rock Spolasco and his Child Holding on for Dear 

 Life Hundreds Ashore " Wrecking "No Attempts to Save the Survivors Several Washed Off Deaths from 

 Exhaustion " To the Rescue ! "Noble Efforts-Failure of Several Plans A Novel Expedient adopted Its 

 Perils Another Dreary Night Good Samaritans A Noble Lady Saved at Last-The Inventor's Description 

 of the Rope Bridge The Wreck Register for One Year-Grand Work of the Lifeboat Institution . - . .297 



