Discovering the Samphire on the Rock 233 The last of the _Grosser Kurfürst_ 237 Dover 240 Ramsgate 241 The Gulf Stream Light Vessel on the Goodwin Sands 244 Harwich 248 Yarmouth 249 Scarborough 253 Captain Boyton attacked by a Dog‐fish in the Straits _To face page_ 262 of Messina Early Swimming 257 Diving 261 Captain Webb. (_From a Photograph by Albert 265 Fradelle_) Captain Webb’s Arrival at Calais 268 The Home for Aged Merchant Seamen, Belvedere, Kent 273 Greenwich Hospital 276 Greenwich Pensioners 277 The Great Equatorial Telescope in the Dome, Greenwich 281 Observatory Collision of the _Bywell Castle_ and the _Princess 284 Alice_ Trinity House, London 288 The Siren Fog‐horn, for Warning Ships off the Coast _To face page_ 289 The Storm 292 After the Storm 293 “He sinks into thy depths with bubbling groan, 296 Without a grave, unknelled, uncoffined, and unknown” “Deep on her side the reeling vessel lies” 297 “At daybreak, on the bleak sea beach, 300 A fisherman stood aghast,” “Three Fishermen sailed away to the West” 301 [Illustration] THE SEA. CHAPTER I. THE GREAT ATLANTIC FERRY.