An incredible story of men against the sea and the U.S. Life Saving
Service of the 19th century. Dramatic events culled from documented
reports describe the forgotten service that saved lives from ships
foundering on Rhode Island's shores. Included are synopsis of Rhode
Island's worse marine disasters as the passenger steamer SS
Larchmont in the dead of winter was holed and sunk by the schooner
Harry Knowlton with a loss of 145 lives, to the rumored purposeful
shipwrecker's on Block Island who decoyed wayward vessels to their
doom to salvage wreckage and cargo. Dozens of shipwrecks and
rescues by the men assigned to the Life saving stations are covered
with direct words from the rescuers themselves. Varoujan Karentz
describes the nine Life Saving Stations along Rhode Island's
southern ocean shore and on Block Island. The men's feats who's
motto "you have to go out, but you don't have to come back" often
resulted in acts of heroism. For over 40 years they lived an
extraordinary drama while at the same time made maritime history,
which somehow faded into the past and disappeared. The author
brings this all back coupled with actual reports from the Life
Saving Service's archives. At each station its crew lived together
and individually walked as a beach patrol looking for vessels in
danger and signaling them to change course or summoning beach
apparatus or launching their surfboat to attempt a rescue. Stories
include the successful use of the breeches buoy where passengers or
crew were hauled ashore directly from stranded vessels. The
stations were manned during the winter months where severity of
storms were maximum often mixed with snow and ice. Frostbite,
exhaustion and boredom was common as was the fear of the sea.
Karentz brings this all back in a realism of a variety of actual
shipwreck events which happened at each station. The Life Savers
with its saga of men who's stories are told event by event captures
the imagination of brave men and thankful survivors. It is
meaningful reading of yesteryear and how men suffered to save
another unknown human being from the ravages of the sea.
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