OUR STORM WARRIORS. 



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safety. The " storm warriors/' as the Rev. Mr. Gilmore calls them with so much 

 appropriateness, in his fascinating and powerfully-written work,* " are on the watch, hour 

 after hour, through the stormy night walking the pier, and giving keen glances to 

 where the Goodwin Sands are white with the churning, seething waves that leap high, 

 and plunge and foam amid the treacherous shoals and banks. Look ! a Hash is seen ; 

 listen, in a few seconds, yes, there is the throb and boom of a distant gun, a rocket 

 cleaves the darkness ; and now the cry " Man the life-boat ! Man the life-boat ! Seaward 

 ho ! Seaward ho ! " Storm warriors to the rescue ! 



A LIFE-BOAT AND CARRIAGE LATEST FORM. 





One Sunday night in the month of February, a few years ago, the weather was 

 what sailors call " dirty," and accompanied by sudden gusts of wind and snow-squalls. 

 Before the light broke on Monday morning, the Margate lugger, Eclipse, put out to sea 

 to cruise round the shoals and sands in the neighbourhood of Margate, on the look- 

 out for the victims of any disasters that might have occurred during the night, and 

 4he crew soon discovered that a vessel was ashore on the Margate sands. She proved to be 

 the Spanish brig Samarifano, bound from Antwerp to Santander, and laden with a valuable 



* "Storm Warriors; or, Life-boat Work on the Goodwin Sands," by the Rev. John Gilmore, M.A. 



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