Every night along Cape Cod, from Wood End at Provincetown southward, surfmen walked the beaches watching for ships in trouble. Dalton recounts historic wrecks, the founding of the Life-Saving Service on the Cape with its first nine stations of 1872, keepers’ and surfmen’s pay, methods of reviving the apparently drowned, and profiles of each station and its crew.
A proud tribute to the men of one of the most dangerous winter coasts in the world. Download the free EPUB.