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Updated: June 28, 2025
They naturally expected to find the usual off-tide from the land before and at high-water, which would have carried them towards the vessel when they anchored under her lee; but instead of that there was running a strong 'in-tide, which swept them helplessly away from the vessel, and rendered them absolutely unable to reach her, though anchored only two hundred yards off.
There was, be it remembered, an enormous sea, which during all the struggles of the men broke with fury over the lifeboat, and kept her full to her thwarts all the night, bursting in clouds of spray, and of course drenching the lifeboatmen. They now got to the bows of the wreck, where the strong off-tide drifted them right under the jib-boom and bowsprit.
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