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Excerpt from Joshua James: Life-Saver
Or when impenetrable fog envelops them for days at a time, rendering chart and reckoning worthless, the as surance that a practically continuous line of keen-eyed and sleepless senti nels march and countermarch along the surf-beaten beaches or stand guard with warning signals in hand upon the jutting cliffs and headlands reaching far out into the sea for unwary vic tims, lends a comfortable sense of se curity. That this confidence is not misplaced is attested by the statistics of the Service, which show that of more than a hundred thousand lives imperiled upon vessels wrecked or in distress within the scope of the opera tions of the station crews since the systematic organization of the Service in 1871, less than one per cent has.
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Or when impenetrable fog envelops them for days at a time, rendering chart and reckoning worthless, the as surance that a practically continuous line of keen-eyed and sleepless senti nels march and countermarch along the surf-beaten beaches or stand guard with warning signals in hand upon the jutting cliffs and headlands reaching far out into the sea for unwary vic tims, lends a comfortable sense of se curity. That this confidence is not misplaced is attested by the statistics of the Service, which show that of more than a hundred thousand lives imperiled upon vessels wrecked or in distress within the scope of the opera tions of the station crews since the systematic organization of the Service in 1871, less than one per cent has.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Publisher - Forgotten Books
Language - English
Hardback
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Author
Sumner I. Kimball
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ISBN - 9780265526972
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 0.6 cm
Page Count - 110
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Sumner I. Kimball
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ISBN - 9781332335732
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 0.6 cm
Page Count - 112
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