Our coasts have been visited by a terrible storm during the past three days, and wrecks and disasters h been numerous.
Altogether the loss of life amounts to considerably over a hundred, among the vessels lost being the coastguard cruiser Active, with the Captain and nineteen hands, and the Caister life-boat, with her crew of nine.. As is well-known, the men on the east coast for the most part refuse tw have anything to do with the self-righting life-boats of the type used on the south coast. and elsewhere. This disaster seems to show that they are wrong; but the Caister boat had lived through many a storm. She was launched in 1892, and had been launched on eighty-one occasions, saving in all 146 lives. Caister holds the record for life-boat rescues, successive 1 boats having in forty-three years saved 1,381 lives.
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