The Lifeboat

Chapter One. - The Beginning—in which Several Important Personages are Introduced.

Chapter Two. - In Which more Important Personages are Introduced, and Display their Characters by their Actions More or Less.

Chapter Three. - In which the Introduction of Important Personages is Continued, in Rather Exciting Circumstances.

Chapter Four. - In which Introductions still go on, and Coming Events Cast their Shadows Before.

Chapter Five. - The Gale—False Economy and its Results—A Wreck on the Goodwin Sands.

Chapter Six. - Heroes of the Kentish Coast—The Lifeboat—The Rescue.

Chapter Seven. - The Widow’s Cottage.

Chapter Eight. - The Living Left Among the Dead—A Wild Chase on a Wild Night Stopped by a Ghost.

A Tribute to the Skill and Determined Courage Of the Boatmen of Deal, And in Memory of George Philpot, Who Died March 22, 1850. - “Full many lives he saved With his undaunted crew; He put his trust in Providence, And cared not how it blew.”

On This Spot, August the 25th 1782, Mary Bax, Spinster, Aged 23 Years, Was Murdered by Martin Lash, a Foreigner, Who was Executed for the Same.