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Updated: July 1, 2025
But at last, with difficulty, half of the living freight of the Sabrina was transferred to the Walmer lifeboat; and then both lifeboats luffing in through Trinity Swatch, by God's mercy, escaped the deadly Goodwins, and landed the rescued crew at Broadstairs. And the gallant deed is still sung by the Kingsdown children in simple village rhymes,
There I saw, three miles off, our two lifeboats of Kingsdown and Walmer, each in tow of a steamer which came to their aid, making for the Goodwins, and on the outer edge of the Goodwins I beheld a hapless brig, with sails set, aground. I saw her at that distance lifted by the heavy sea, and at that distance I saw the great tumble of the billows.
"When a wrack is sighted," said the captain, "the signal-officer up stairs telegraphs to the other near stations, whose keepers at once send their lifeboats, cars and surfmen here. The ship is signaled by flags in daytime, by rockets at night." He opened a closet in which were arranged the cases of lights, with books of instruction for their use.
By a good three hundred yards the shot had failed to carry the line over the vessels. "There's Mr. Bradford," said Carroll, waving her hand. "I wish he'd come and tell us something about it." The banjo-playing village Brummell saw the signal and came, his face grave. "Couldn't they get the lifeboats out to them?" asked Carroll as he approached. "You see that one," said Bradford, pointing.
We are not sufficiently impressed, perhaps, with the nationality of the work done by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, which manages our fleet of 270 lifeboats. We do not fully appreciate, it may be, the personal interest which we ourselves have in the great war, and the duty to say nothing of privilege which lies upon us to lend a helping hand in the good cause.
Havin' the scene set like that made it easy. All I has to do is sketch out the plot to Vee and wait for Rupert to come gum-shoein' around. "Just follow my lead, that's all," says I, as we fixes some seat cushions in the shade of one of the lifeboats on the upper deck. "And when you spot him " "He's coming up now," whispers Vee.
For my part, I think I would rather do without the things that ships bring to us from foreign lands than always hear of those dreadful wrecks, and but really one cannot expect the world to alter just to please one, so I suppose people must go on being drowned and saved by rocket-boats and lifeboats; so we had better retire to the drawing-room, my dear."
He was frightened of women-folk unless they were ill. He could talk to Marcella about impersonal things very interestedly, but suddenly to become fatherly was difficult. His mouth went dry, his face flushed and he wished he had asked Aunt Janet to come with them. She seized his arm eagerly. "Oh look at the nice, kind little lifeboats! They're not much bigger than Tammas's boat.
"To get lifeboats to right themselves w'en they're upset," replied Jeph, regarding his model with a look of perplexity. "You see it's all very well to have 'em filled with air-chambers, which prevents 'em from sinkin'; but w'en they're upset, d'ye see, they ain't o' no use till they gets on their keels again; and that ain't easy to manage.
Hoddan pulled away quickly before somebody thought to ask why there were no lifeboats in the places so plainly made for them. He headed downward when the landmarks on Darth's surface told him that Don Loris' castle would shortly come over the horizon. He was just touching atmosphere when it did.
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