Chapters (53)
- R.M. Ballantyne "The Lifeboat"
- Chapter One.
- The Beginning—in which Several Important Personages are Introduced.
- Chapter Two.
- In Which more Important Personages are Introduced, and Display their Characters by their Actions More or Less.
- Chapter Three.
- In which the Introduction of Important Personages is Continued, in Rather Exciting Circumstances.
- Chapter Four.
- In which Introductions still go on, and Coming Events Cast their Shadows Before.
- Chapter Five.
- The Gale—False Economy and its Results—A Wreck on the Goodwin Sands.
- Chapter Six.
- Heroes of the Kentish Coast—The Lifeboat—The Rescue.
- Chapter Seven.
- The Widow’s Cottage.
- Chapter Eight.
- The Living Left Among the Dead—A Wild Chase on a Wild Night Stopped by a Ghost.
- Chapter Nine.
- Unbusinesslike Proceedings in “The Office”—Peekins Grows Desperate and Takes Refuge in the “Three Jolly Tars.”
- Chapter Ten.
- The “Hovel” on Deal Beach—A Storm Brewing—Plans to Circumvent the Smugglers.
- Chapter Eleven.
- The Smugglers’ Cave—A Surprise, a Deception, a Fight, and an Escape.
- Chapter Twelve.
- The Storm—The Wreck of the Homeward Bound—The Lifeboat.
- Chapter Thirteen.
- Saving the Passengers and Crew—Our Heroes Distinguish Themselves.
- General Observations.
- Chapter Fourteen.
- The Morning after the Storm.
- Chapter Fifteen.
- Relates to Love, Cross Purposes and Mistakes, etcetera.
- Chapter Sixteen.
- Tommy Bogey forms a Mighty Resolve, and Mr Denham, being Perplexed, becomes Liberal.
- Chapter Seventeen.
- Dark Deeds are done upon the Sea—Tommy Bogey in Great Danger.
- Chapter Eighteen.
- The Antipodes.
- Chapter Nineteen.
- Denham Longs for Fresh Air, and Finds it.
- Chapter Twenty.
- A Fire at Sea.
- Chapter Twenty One.
- Mysterious Doings.
- Chapter Twenty Two.
- The Storm and the Wreck.
- Chapter Twenty Three.
- History of the Lifeboat.
- Chapter Twenty Four.
- A Meeting—A Death, and a Discovery.
- Chapter Twenty Five.
- The Conclusion.
- The End.
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