CHAPTER XIII. THE WRECK OF THE "MARY"--GALES ABROAD 161 CHAPTER XIV. THE WRECK OF THE "MARY"--A STRUGGLE FOR DEAR LIFE 171 CHAPTER XV. DEAL BEACH 192 CHAPTER XVI. THE LOSS OF THE "LINDA," AND THE RACE TO THE RESCUE 203 CHAPTER XVII. THE RESCUE OF THE CREW OF THE "AMOOR" 214 CHAPTER XVIII. THE RESCUE OF THE CREW OF THE "EFFORT"--THE DANGERS OF HOVELLING 224 CHAPTER XIX. THE HOVELLERS, OR SALVORS SAVED. THE "PRINCESS ALICE" HOVELLING LUGGER 234 CHAPTER XX. THE SAVING OF "LA MARGUERITE"--(A HOVEL) 254 CHAPTER XXI. THE WRECK BROUGHT IN 265 CHAPTER XXII. THE WRECK OF THE "PROVIDENTIA" 275 CHAPTER XXIII. HARDLY SAVED 287 CHAPTER XXIV. SAVED AT LAST--THE FATAL GOODWIN SANDS 298 CHAPTER XXV. SAVED AT LAST--WE WILL NOT GO HOME WITHOUT THEM 310 CHAPTER XXVI. SAVED AT LAST--"VICTORY OR DEATH" 320 CHAPTER XXVII. OF SOME OF THE LIFE-BOAT MEN 333 CHAPTER XXVIII. CONCLUSION--THE LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION 344 STORM WARRIORS. CHAPTER I. HOW THE SHIPWRECKED FARED IN DAYS OF OLD, AND THE GROWTH OF SYMPATHY ON THEIR BEHALF. A worthy Quaker thus wrote:--"I expect to pass through this world but once; if, therefore, there can be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again." Before in fancy we man the Life-boat, and rush out into the storm, and have the salt spray dashing over us, and the wind singing like suppressed thunder in our ears--before we watch the gallant Storm Warriors of the present day, in their life-and-death struggle, charging in through the raging seas to the rescue of the shipwrecked, let us look back and see how the unfortunate by shipwreck fared in the old time, and then take a hasty glance or two, watching the gradual growth, from age to age, of sympathy for the distressed; humanity becoming more pronounced, and more practical; the progressive adaptation of Maritime Law to the advancing tone of feeling; the gradual organization and development of that most noble Society, "The National Life-boat Institution," which has for its sole object the lessening of the dangers of the sea, and the saving of the shipwrecked; and, lastly, the progress and final triumph of the labours of science, in the invention of a life-boat which is able successfully to defy the efforts of the most raging storms.