. The sea [microform] : its stirring story of adventure, peril & heroism. Adventure and adventurers; Voyages and travels; Ocean; Aventures et aventuriers; Voyages; Océan. BRAVE CORNISH LADIES. 2-^1 the captain, he seizetl it, hut even then seemed irresolute whether to save himself or perisli with his brig-. After a quarter of an hour the love of life constrained him to fasten the rope round his body, and the foolhardy man was dragged ashore. ^A'ithiu an hour nothinjy was to be seen of the vessel but a few Huatin*;- spars. The cheers which greeted the captain's rescue were but feeble compa
. The sea [microform] : its stirring story of adventure, peril & heroism. Adventure and adventurers; Voyages and travels; Ocean; Aventures et aventuriers; Voyages; Océan. BRAVE CORNISH LADIES. 2-^1 the captain, he seizetl it, hut even then seemed irresolute whether to save himself or perisli with his brig-. After a quarter of an hour the love of life constrained him to fasten the rope round his body, and the foolhardy man was dragged ashore. ^A'ithiu an hour nothinjy was to be seen of the vessel but a few Huatin*;- spars. The cheers which greeted the captain's rescue were but feeble compared with those that had welcomed the return of the coastguardsman whose life had been risked in attempting to save him. Bnivc Gould! The coastguardsmen, however, do not enjoy a monopoly of bravery in Cornwall. There are courageous women there, some of them very young. ill â ; >m. m m LUE-llOAT OOIXO TO A \\ utA K JHIOM hMl, I'ADMuW. m Towards the end of October, 1879, a well-earned presentation was made at Padstow, to five yoiuig ladies of an equal number of silver medals and testimonials lasovibed on vellum, tiie vote of the National Life-boat Institution. The four Misses Pridcnux Brune and Miss Nora O'Shaughnessy had taken a boat through a heavy sea, at the risk of their own lives, to save an exhausted sailor from a capsized boat, two of the companions of whom had perished before their arrival. Samuel Bate, late the assistant cox wain of the Padstow life- boat, was towing the ladies' boat astern of his fishing smack, a seeing the accident, they requested to be cast off, and that being done, though against his convictions, he states that tliey rowetl " like tigers " to the rescue through a furious sea, and he has no doubt that the man would have perished like his companions but for their ])rompt arrival. Such noble-hearted girls make us still more proud of Cornwall, which has given Englandâaye, the worldâso many noble Please note that these images are e
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