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id: 27322
author: Hillary, William, Sir
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title:
  An Appeal to the British Nation on the Humanity and Policy of Forming a National Institution for the Preservation of Lives and Property from Shipwreck (1825)

summary:
  In the nineteenth century, surrounded by every improvement and institution which the benevolent can suggest, or the art of man accomplish for the mitigation or prevention of human ills, will it for a moment be capable of belief, that there does not, in all our great and generous land, exist one National Institution which has for its direct object the rescue of human life from shipwreck? Honoured, as this Institution has been, by the high patronage of the King, and of his illustrious family--constituted a Royal Institution by his Majesty's gracious command--sanctioned by many of the most distinguished characters in the church and state, and sustained by the bounty of a generous nation--it is not for me to have the presumption to offer my acknowledgements, for that support which the cause of our shipwrecked fellow-creatures has obtained from the sovereign and the people of this great country.


id: 21717
author: Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)
title: Battles with the Sea
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words: 24395
sentence: 1082
flesch: 77
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summary:
  Last year (1882) twenty-three vessels were thus saved by lifeboat crews. Let its self-emptying and buoyant qualities be ever so good, you have only to upset it to render it no better than any other boat;--indeed, in a sense, it is worse than other boats, because it leads men to face danger which they would not dare to encounter in an ordinary boat.


id: 22277
author: Webster, Frank V.
title: Darry the Life Saver; Or, The Heroes of the Coast
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words: 44106
sentence: 1967
flesch: 82
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summary:
  There is another little laughing Peake now, a boy at that, and at last accounts Darry--it is hard to call him by any other name--heard that he is destined to be christened Joseph Darry Peake. The three of them plunged into the bushes alongside the road, and were lost to sight, leaving Darry half sitting up on the road, plastered with mud, and ruefully surveying the strip of cloth in his hand.


id: 31259
author: Rolt-Wheeler, Francis
title: The Boy With the U. S. Life-Savers
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flesch: 86
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summary:
  Good luck, old man, he continued, shaking hands with his chum heartily, I'll drop you a line written right on Tillamook Rock, and maybe it'll have the real sea flavor to it! The steamer's crew were on the alert--they had good men aboard that craft--and tailed on to the line.


id: 21744
author: Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)
title: The Lifeboat
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sentence: 3883
flesch: 78
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summary:
  It's bam, old man, all bam; bosh and gammon, said Orrick. Why, what put that into yer head, old man? Well, it ain't altogether my own notion, said Jeph, for I've heard, when I was in the port o' Leith, many years ago, that a clergyman o' the name of Bremer had made a boat o' this sort in the year 1792, that answered very well; but, somehow or other, it never came to anything.


id: 42415
author: Gilmore, John
title: Storm Warriors; or, Life-Boat Work on the Goodwin Sands
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flesch: 67
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summary:
  He suggested that such boats should be protected by bands of cork round their gunwales, that they should be rendered buoyant by the use of air-cases, especially at the bow and stern, and that they should be ballasted by an iron keel. Parents, wives, children--what a group they would seem if they could be pictured watching the saved ones return; what words, and looks, and tears of thanks where feelings are too deep for words, for the Storm Warriors, and for the life-boat cause, and for the generous English people who placed such boats at the disposal of such brave hearts and strong hands--of men ready to dare all and to do all that men can do to rescue the perishing from death.


id: 4398
author: Smith, Francis Hopkinson
title: The Tides of Barnegat
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sentence: 5479
flesch: 87
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summary:
  To Jane Martha said: Oh, bless the darlin'! I was that restless I couldn't keep still, and so I says to Miss Jane, 'I'm goin' to the beach with Meg and watch the ships go by; that's the only thing that'll quiet my nerves.


