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The Lifeboat

by R. M. Ballantyne

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1864
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234
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Along the Thames, busy wharves and warehouses surround a quiet London street where shipping decisions have consequences for the people at sea. R. M. Ballantyne opens The Lifeboat with Bax, a young sailor called to the office of shipowners Denham, Crumps, and Company. Ordered to take the schooner Nancy to Liverpool, he warns that its worn timbers put the crew in danger. The disagreement gives this children's sea novel an immediate concern with responsibility as well as adventure.

A later scene moves to Saint Margaret's Bay, where a wreck brings boatmen, rescuers and anxious women to the shore. Bax studies the surf and carries a rope towards a rocky point, joined by Guy Foster, Coleman and other men. Alongside these urgent scenes, the narrator explains difficulties with earlier lifeboats.

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R. M. Ballantyne

R. M. Ballantyne (1825-1894) was a Scottish author of adventure fiction for the young. His years as a clerk for the Hudson's Bay Company in Canada gave him a taste for wild places, and he went on to write more than a hundred spirited tales of travel and survival.

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First published
1864
Reading time
About 6 hours
Pages
234
Language
English
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