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Updated: May 31, 2025
The Ganges had by this time struck on the middle part of the Goodwins, and the sea was breaking mast-high over her. Her lights and flares had gone out, and the lifeboat had the greatest difficulty in finding her. Just when the lifeboatmen were in perplexity, she again burned blue lights, and these guided the advancing boat.
Swift as thought we had bent a number of ropes' ends together, and securing a piece of wood to this line, threw it overboard, and let it drift to the boat. It was seized, a hawser made fast, and we dragged the great rope on board. By means of this hawser the lifeboatmen hauled their craft under our quarter, clear of the raffle. But there was no such rush made for her as might be thought. No!
But though the lifeboat rode plunging alongside, she rode alongside at a distance of twenty yards from the wreck, and had to be steered and sheered, though at anchor, just as if she was in motion. At the helm, therefore, stood the two coxswains, while round the foremast and close to the fore air-box grouped the lifeboatmen.
Let us repeat that these hundreds of committees and local groups are not organized hierarchically, and are composed exclusively of volunteers, lifeboatmen, and people interested in the work. The Central Committee, which is more of a centre for correspondence, in no wise interferes.
The lifeboatmen crouched down to avoid destruction, and for all this was done in a moment away she sped, spun round as a boy would spin his top, to leeward of the wreck and among the breakers of the Goodwins.
The Lord Proprietor had treated him as a pantaloon, and these lifeboatmen so little they valued him could not be at the pains of catching a rope. He steered, as nearly as he could calculate, west-by-south, allowing at a guess for the set of the tide.
It is pleasant to record the unselfish heroism of the Deal lifeboatmen, who on this occasion were the means of saving both valuable property and precious human lives. The leak we've found, it cannot pour fast; We've lightened her a foot or more Up and rig a jury foremast, She rights! She rights, boys! Wear off shore!
Having rescued the crew of the distressed vessel, solus fecit some slight assistance having also been rendered by the lifeboatmen the lifeboat is of course overturned, and he swims ashore.
For God's sake, captain, come on! And every face in the blue glare was riveted on the struggling man but, oh! what anguish to the staring lifeboatmen eager to save him! he fell, his life-belt being torn off in his fall, full forty feet on to the wave-washed mizzen boom.
The Deal men, therefore, with seamanlike skill and resource, swung a kedge anchor clear of the vessel high up from her foreyard, and as the vessel drifted the kedge bit, and the bows of the vessel little by little came up to the sea, when her other anchors were let go, and in a few minutes held fast; then with a mighty cheer from the Deal men lifeboatmen and lugger's crew all together the Iron Crown half an hour afterwards was floated by the rising tide on the very top of the fateful sands; her hawser was brought to the waiting tug-boats, and she was towed ship, cargo, and crew all saved into the shelter of the Downs.
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