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Thomas Stanley Treanor. Heroes of the Goodwin Sands
Heroes of the Goodwin Sands
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A PERILOUS RESCUE … … … Frontispiece
The Launch of the Lifeboat. From a photograph by W. H. Franklin
CHAPTER I
THE GOODWIN SANDS
The Goodwin Sands
A wreck on the Goodwins
CHAPTER II
THE DEAL BOATMEN
The boom of a distant gun. From a photograph by W. H. Franklin. James Laming, Coxswain, Kingsdown Lifeboat, R. Roberts, Coxswain, North Deal Lifeboat, John Mackins, Coxswain, Walmer Lifeboat
Showing a flare
Hooking the steamer
A forlorn hope
CHAPTER III
THE AUGUSTE HERMANN FRANCKE
CHAPTER IV
THE GANGES
Position of the Ganges on the Sands
CHAPTER V
THE EDINA
Dangerous work
CHAPTER VI
THE FREDRIK CARL
The anchor of death. From a photograph by W. H. Franklin
Deal boatmen on the lookout for a hovel
CHAPTER VII
THE GOLDEN ISLAND
Location of the wreck
Clove-hitch
CHAPTER VIII
THE SORRENTO, S.S
Jarvist Arnold
The Kingsdown lifeboat
Scene on Deal Beach February 13, 1870. From a painting by W. H. Franklin
Position of the Sorrento
The Sorrento on the Goodwin Sands
CHAPTER IX
THE ROYAL ARCH
CHAPTER X
THE MANDALAY
CHAPTER XI
THE LEDA
'All hands in the lifeboat!' From a photograph by W. H. Franklin
CHAPTER XII
THE D'ARTAGNAN AND THE HEDVIG SOPHIA
CHAPTER XIII
THE RAMSGATE LIFEBOAT
The lifeboat Bradford at the wreck of the Indian Chief
No. 1.—The Mate's Account
No. 2.—The Coxswain's Account
Leaving Ramsgate Harbour in tow
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Thomas Stanley Treanor
Published by Good Press, 2019
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Independently of the breakers and cross-seas of stormy weather, the dangers of the Goodwin Sands arise from the facts that they lie right in the highway of shipping, that at high water they are concealed from view, being then covered by the sea to the depth of from ten to twenty-five feet, varying in different places, and that furious currents run over and around them.
Add to this that they are very lonely and distant from the mainland, and, being surrounded by deep water, are far from help; whilst, as an additional and terrible danger, here and there on the sands, wrecks, anchors, stumps, and notably the great sternpost of the Terpsichore, from which a few months ago Roberts and the Deal lifeboatmen had rescued all the crew, stick up over the surface. And woe be to the boat or vessel which strikes on these!
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