The tragedy of the seas; or, Sorrow on the ocean, lake, and river, from shipwreck, plague, fire and famine .. . he mercy of the sea, it was carried rapidly be-yond the wreck ; but before the crew lost sight of the wreck,they saw the other boat of the vessel swamp. The boatitself escaped by something little short of a miracle. Therewas but one outlet by which it could avoid being dashed in THE VESSEL BREAKS IN TWO. 205 pieces on the breakers by which it was surrounded. Thisoutlet it fortunately took without its crew being aware ofit; and after being exposed to the storm all night, it waspicked
The tragedy of the seas; or, Sorrow on the ocean, lake, and river, from shipwreck, plague, fire and famine .. . he mercy of the sea, it was carried rapidly be-yond the wreck ; but before the crew lost sight of the wreck,they saw the other boat of the vessel swamp. The boatitself escaped by something little short of a miracle. Therewas but one outlet by which it could avoid being dashed in THE VESSEL BREAKS IN TWO. 205 pieces on the breakers by which it was surrounded. Thisoutlet it fortunately took without its crew being aware ofit; and after being exposed to the storm all night, it waspicked up by a sloop and carried into Shields. In less than five minutes after the vessel struck, a secondshock separated her into two parts ; the stern, quarter-deck,and cabin, being instantly borne away, — through a passagecalled the Piper Gut, — by a tremendous current, which runswith considerable violence even in temperate weather, witha rapidity of about six miles an hour, but which, when theweather is tempestuous, flows with a force truly terrific. The fore-part of the vessel, in the mean time, remained. Grace Darling and her Father proceeding to the Forfarshire. fast on the rock, and to it still clung the kw passengers whoremained, every instant expecting to share the fate of theirunfortunate companions, whom they had seen swept awayby the raging element. In this dreadful situation, their criesattracted the notice of Grace Darling, the daughter of thekeeper of the Outer Feme lighthouse. With a noble hero-ism, she immediately determined to attempt their rescue, in18 206 THE STORY OF GRACE DARLING. spite of the raging of the storm, and the all but certain de-struction which threatened to attend it. *Having hastily awakened her father, he launched hisboat at daybreak, and with a generous sympathy, worthyof the father of Grace Darling, prepared to proceed to theirrescue. The gale, in the mean time, continued unabated,and the boiling of the waves threatened a speedy destructiont
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