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tremendous sea running-, they had the narrowest escape from being capsized; one man was 

 washed out of the boat, but was recovered, and most of the loose tackle was swept overboard 

 and irretrievably lost. 



Popular Ramsgate, with its fashionably select annexe St. Lawrence-on-Sea, is so well 

 known by all, that no lengthened description is required here, for its actual and practical 

 connection with the sea, in the noble work done by its lifeboatsmen, has already been 



THE GULF STREAM LIGHT VESSEL ON THE GOODWIN SANDS. 



detailed. Ramsgate has a fine harbour and piers, from which the ie husbands' boat" is 

 often, more especially on Saturdays, watched and longed for by hundreds of wives and 

 daughters. 



Margate had, in Queen Elizabeth's reign, fifteen boats and other vessels, ranging 

 from one to eighteen tons, there being four of the latter. It had 108 inhabited houses. 

 It now has a floating population of 50,000 to 70,000 people, the permanent residents 

 being about 15,000 in number. There are several pilots, and a large number of luggers 

 employed in fishing and in seeking for casualties; it owns a certain number of coasting 

 vessels ; while a large number of coasters and French fishing-boats come in during the 

 winter months and fishing season for refuge, repairs, and provisions. Margate has a 

 Seaman's Room and Observatory, and Ramsgate a Seaman's Infirmary. The local agents 



