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Updated: June 18, 2025
"They are giving us plenty of warning," Jocelyn Thew observed coolly. "I suppose we shall get the next one amidships." "I find it most upsetting," his companion declared. "I am going down to the cabin to get my lifebelt." He turned away. Presently there was another line of signals, more shots, some across the bows of the steamer, some right over her, a few aft.
Suddenly I heard a terrific explosion, followed by another, and the cry went up that the ship had been torpedoed. She began to list at once, and her angle was so great that many of the boats on the port side could not be launched. A lot of people made a rush for the boats, but I went down to my cabin, took off my coat and vest and donned a lifebelt.
The Red Un, waking full, now remembered that he hated the Chief; for fear he did not hate him enough, he recalled the lifebelt, and his legs, and the girl laughing. "All right!" he said. "Gwan, Pimples! What'll I have? Appendiceetis?" "Have a toothache," snapped the Senior Second. "Tear off a few yells anything to keep him!"
Shaking off the spray, the drenched lifeboatmen again turned to the work of rescue; the coxswain having been preserved by his thick cork lifebelt from what might otherwise have been a fatal crush.
There was an anxious interval, and then the mate's head appeared above the water, and after a breathing- space disappeared again. The skipper, watching uneasily, stood by with a lifebelt. "Come out, Ted," screamed his sister as he came up for breath again. The mate disappeared once more, but coming up for the third time, hung on to the side of the barge to recover a bit.
Faith is the true lifebelt that keeps us from being drowned in any stormy sea. And if you and I feel that we are His, and live accordingly, we shall be calm amid all change, serene when others are troubled, ready to be helpers of others even when we ourselves are in distress.
Now, from all that has been said, it will, I think, be seen and admitted that the lifeboats of the Institution are almost indestructible. The lifebelt, to which reference has been so often made, deserves special notice at this point. The figure on the title-page shows its appearance and the manner in which it is worn.
Then as he rose from the depths, an unconscious, helpless hulk, a strong tan-colored arm wound around him like a lifebelt, and a well-nigh breathless boy, with almost superhuman strength, flung him, limp and nearly lifeless, across the canoe. The impact almost hurled Freddy from his slender hold, but for a few seconds the two boys were safe.
I confided "Tuppence" to the care of the ship's carpenter and begged him to find a spare lifebelt for him, so that if the worst came to the worst he could use it as a little raft! We watched the two destroyers pitching black against the dashing spray as they sped along on either side convoying us across.
Katharine asked curiously. "You had better not enquire, Miss Beverley. It's just as well not to know too much of these things. Here's Mr. Crawshay," he added. "Perhaps he'll tell you." Crawshay appeared, hugging his lifebelt, on which he seated himself gingerly. "Can't imagine what the captain's up to," he complained.
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