Heroes of the Goodwin SandsTreanor, Thomas Stanley
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Heroes of the Goodwin Sands
Treanor, Thomas Stanley
Goodwin Sands (England); Lifesaving -- Great Britain; Shipwrecks
To this half-floating, half-submerged mass, the boat's painter was made
fast, and as it dragged through the water much more slowly than the
boat, the latter checked in its drift came head to sea, and yielding to
the send of each wave rode over crests and combers which would
otherwise have swamped her.
Hardly hoping for deliverance, they saw the steam-tug and lifeboat
making for them and ranging to windward of them to give them a lee, and
they were all dragged at last safely into the Bradford. Soon they were
towed in between Ramsgate piers, and this time the flying of the
British red ensign denoted, 'All saved.' Shouts of rejoicing hailed
the double exploit of the hardy lifeboatmen, and their fellow townsmen
of Ramsgate proudly felt they had done 'by no means a bad piece of work
before breakfast that morning.'
'Storm Warriors' of unconquered Kent, rivals in a hundred deeds of
mercy with your brethren the Deal boatmen, and with them sharing the
title of 'Heroes of the Goodwin Sands,' God guard you in your perils
and bring you safe home at last!
At many other points around the British Isles the same noble spirit is
displayed of splendid daring in a sacred cause. Would that all the
stalwart fishermen and boatmen of this dear England, as their
prototypes of the Sea of Galilee, would serve and follow Him who
Himself 'came to seek and to save that which was lost,' that so passing
through the waves of this troublesome world, finally they may come
through Him to the land of everlasting life!
[1] This clearly is an error, for no lifeboat could possibly have been
near the wreck at this early hour. The ship struck at half-past two
o'clock on the morning of January 5, and at daybreak the rescue
mentioned was attempted, clearly, by a smack, for no lifeboat heard of
the wreck until eleven o'clock of the same day. Probably it was that
smack which afterwards conveyed the news of the wreck to Harwich at 11
a.m. Another fishing smack proceeded at once to Ramsgate, and arrived
there at noon, having received the information of the wreck from the
Kentish Knock lightship.
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THE BOY'S LIBRARY OF ADVENTURE & HEROISM
[Transcriber's note: This list contains only the titles and authors of
the books in this catalog. No attempt was made to transcribe the
assorted newspaper reviews.]
Allan Adair; or Here and There in Many Lands, by Dr. Gordon Staples,
R.N.
A Hero in Wolf-skin. A Story of Pagan and Christian, by Tom Bevan.
The Adventures of Val Daintry in the Graeco-Turkish War, by V. L. Going.
Stories for Boys.
by Talbot Baines Reed.
The Adventures of a Three-Guinea Watch.
The Cock House and Fellsgarth. A Public School Story.
The Fifth Form at St. Dominic's. A Public School Story.
A Dog with a Bad Name.
The Master of the Shell.
My Friend Smith. A Story of School and City Life.
Reginald Cruden. A Tale of City Life.
Tom, Dick, and Harry.
Roger Ingleton, Minor.
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