Word: wreck
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...life work. He has charge of four hospitals, and by means of his hospital ship and his dog-teams, he covers great distances in his tours among the sparse and needy population. Dr. Grenfell is a surgeon, a mariner, a magistrate, an agent of Lloyds in pursuing seamen who wreck their vessels for the insurance, a manager of a string of co-operative stores, and an active opponent of the fraud, the oppression, and the drink evil which finds peculiarly helpless victims among the fisher-folk...
...describing vividly the storm of November, 1898, in which the life-saving crews had not only to perform their usual duty of saving shipwrecked crews, but also to rescue cottagers, whose homes were demolished. In that storm the entire crew of the pilot-boat "Columbia" was lost, and the wreck is now on exhibition at Scituate. Mr. Peck showed numerous pictures of surf to demonstrate the dangers undergone in launching life-boats. One of the slides was a fac-simile of a letter written by the keeper of Minot's Ledge lighthouse, stating that the waves had at times been...
This he will follow with an account of the adventurous and little known vocation of the Greek sponge-divers off the Tripoli coast, who aided in the search for the "Philadelphia", and finally he will tell about his discovery of the wreck...
...Furlong will describe the seizure of the frigate by the Barbary corsairs, and its recapture and burning in Tripoli harbor in 1804 by Lieutenant Decatur; the hazardous vocation of the Greek sponge-divers, who aided him in the search for the wreck...
...contains the following articles: "Editorials;" "The Summons," by W. Goodwin '07; "A Nice Sort of Fellow," by E. B. Sheldon '08; "His Question," by E. L. Sheldon '06; "Mr. Dooley on Kipling," by E. D. Biggers '07; For Gleyre's "Les Illusions Perdues," by H. W. Bell '07; "The Wreck of the Cromer Express," by F. M. Gunther '08; "On Getting up in the Morning," by W. M. F. Perkins '07; "Ambition," by J. Hinckley...