Lifesavers of the South Shore:: A History of Rescue and Loss

by John Galluzzo

Overview

However cruelly the rocks of Massachusetts's South Shore have treated storm-driven sailors, there can be no questioning the selflessness and courage of the keepers and surfmen who played host to the no man's land between frozen beach and gale-tossed sea. Read John Galluzzo's enthralling account of the Life-Saving Service and meet legends like Joshua James, whose surfboat, Nantasket, once saved twenty-nine men from six boats in a grueling thirty-six hours. Chart a course through the service s history, from its humble beginning in the refuge huts built after the American Revolution until its absorption into the U.S. Coast Guard in the twentieth century.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781596292246
Publisher:	Arcadia Publishing SC
Publication date:	11/09/2008
Pages:	128
Sales rank:	1,072,626
Product dimensions:	6.60(w) x 9.60(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

John Galluzzo is the author of more than 35 books on the history and nature of Massachusetts, the northeast and the Coast Guard. He writes for the Hull Times, Scituate Mariner, and South Shore Living on a regular basis, devoting his full-time energies to the South Shore Natural Science Center where he is director of education.

Table of Contents

Foreword Ralph Shanks 9 Acknowledgements 11 Introduction 15 Ulrica 17 The Humane Society of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts 21 The Birth of the United States Life-Saving Service 33 The Road to the South Shore 41 Gurnet Point, 1874 49 Manomet Point, 1874 57 Fourth Cliff, 1879 63 North Scituate, 1886 69 Point Allerton, 1889 77 Brant Rock, 1893 85 The Portland Gale of 1898 93 All That's Left 111 Bibliographical Essay 121 The United States Life-Saving Service Heritage Association 125