Life and Duties of a Coastguard in 1903
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Title : The Eyes of Britain's Coast
Author : HJ Holmes
Source : Royal Magazine
Year Published : 1903
Page Count : 7
Image Count : 10
Word Count : 4292
File Size in MB : 4
File Type : PDF
“A foggy July evening eleven years ago. A huge Atlantic liner ploughing her way through a choppy sea. Suddenly a tremendous crash. Then shrieks of women and the frightened crying of children. The City of Chicago, full of passengers, had run upon a shelf of rocks, far out of her course, on the ugliest part of the southern Irish coast, about half a mile west of the Old Head of Kinsale.
Many of the passengers had been hurled to the…”
