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They got famous names, some of them surfboat crews," reflectively. "There was William Chadwick Bill Shattuck he goes by his crew was known from Sandy Hook to Hatteras. There's one of them now: he can tell you about it better than me. Hello, Jake!"
A keeper in the Orphan Asylum and five men in a surfboat did splendid work in saving seventy-five inmates of the asylum from drowning. All life-saving stations in the flooded district devoted their utmost efforts to the work of rescue and used their funds and supplies without stint. The relief work was in every way well organized.
Not only was he ready to lead a crew of rescuers to succor the perishing, fearlessly directing the surfboat in its plunge through a seething tide, but many a time he had dashed bodily into the breakers, despite the hazard of a powerful undertow, and dragged some drowning creature to a place of safety.
On the road Heavy rain Mosquitoes Natal Thunderstorms A terrible night Maritzburg My cash runs out A halcyon day Hospitality D'Urban Failure to get work The Fighting Blacksmith and the eccentric old gentleman Narrow escape of the latter East London Experiences in a surfboat A Perilous venture I enter the Civil Service Further reminiscences deferred Au revoir.
It was the time the Clara Brookman went down: you mind the Clara Brookman, cap'n? She was homeward bound after a long cruise three year and she struck the bar just below, a mile or two. It was a swashin' sea an' a black night. Our surfboat was overturned with thirteen aboard: 'leven of us was picked up by the other boat.
We tried to launch the surfboat, but the boat was never built that could live on that sea. She was bound from New Orleans to New York, and the most of her passengers were wealthy people, going to the North for the winter.
Upon these coasts it was recommended that houses of refuge should be built large enough to accommodate twenty-five persons, supplied with provisions to support them for ten days, and provided with surfboat, oars and sails.
"Well, I've seen vessels pretty well smashed up, sir. There was the Alabama, coast-schooner: all the crew went down on her in full sight; and the Annandale: she was a coal-brig, and she run aground on a December night. It was a terrible storm: but one surfboat got out to her. They took off what they could the women and part of the crew.
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