For a quarter of a century the author served as Missions to Seamen chaplain in the Downs and as local secretary of the lifeboat institution, sometimes going out with the crews himself. He tells of the Deal and Kingsdown boatmen who launched into winter gales, ice in the rigging, to reach ships breaking up on the Goodwin Sands.
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