Saved by the Lifeboat, by R.M. Ballantyne

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Title: Saved by the Lifeboat

Author: R.M. Ballantyne

Release Date: November 6, 2007 [EBook #23385]

Language: English

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Saved by the Lifeboat, by R.M. Ballantyne.

_______________________________________________________________________This book is mainly to describe the lifeboat service, and how private individuals can donate the money for building a new lifeboat.

We start off with a wreck just occurring near a little seaside village, and how the local men rushed down to the beach to do what they could to save life. We then move to the offices of a mean grasping shipowner, who will do anything to avoid properly equipping his ships with what they would need if disaster struck. Eventually he is brought to a more sensible state of mind, and donates money for a new lifeboat.

There is a good fund-raising chapter, and it is interesting how very much the same today's appeals for the lifeboat service are, though of course today's lifeboat is a very different item to the lifeboats of over a hundred years ago.

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