They Had to Go Out: True Stories of America’s Coastal Life-Savers From the Pages of Wreck & Rescue Journal

The United States Life-Saving Service Heritage Association is proud to present an unprecedented collection of writing on the history of life-saving in America: They Had to Go Out: True Stories of America’s Coastal Life-Savers From the Pages of Wreck & Rescue Journal.

This compilation features a foreword by Fred Stonehouse, and all of the following articles:

The Lifesavers

Joshua James and the Great Storm of November 1898 by John J. Galluzzo
David Atkins, Hero of Cape Cod by Donna Hill
Robert M. Small: The Training of a Life-Saving Service Keeper by Fred Stonehouse
Surfman William Drazel of the Louisville Floating Life-Saving Station by John J. Galluzzo
Ida Lewis: Wrecks and Rescues by Donna Hill
“One of Nature’s Noblemen”: Keeper Walter Nelson Chase of Nantucket by Mary Miles with Maurice Gibbs
The Life-Saving Guns of David Lyle by J. Paul Barnett
“Those Guys Got Plenty of Guts, Take it From Me”: Hilman J. Persson and the Rescue of the Crew of the Trinidad by John J. Galluzzo

The Issues

The Humane Society of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts by Maurice Gibbs
Surfman Versus Keeper by Dewey Livingston
African Americans in the U.S. Life-Saving Service by William D. Peterson
Big Shoes to Fill by John J. Galluzzo
The Tragedy of Motor Lifeboat No. 36542 by Dewey Livingston

The Rescues

The Gold Medal Shipwreck by Fred Stonehouse
Brave Men of Hull by Robert W. Haley
An Incident at a Life-Saving Station by Dennis L. Noble
Rescued From a Wave-Swept Rock edited by Ralph Shanks
Braver Men Never Manned a Lifeboat: A Great Lakes Story by Fred Stonehouse
A Cape Cod Shipwreck and Rescue by William P. Quinn
Only Once on Lake Huron by Fred Stonehouse
A Sunday Evening in the Pacific Northwest by Dennis L. Noble
How Many People Will a Lifeboat Hold? by Ralph Shanks
“Get the 36 Boat Going, Now!” by Fred Stonehouse
A Brush With Coast Guard History: At Sea on February 19, 1952 by Bud Cooney
New Year’s Eve, 1953 by Dennis L. Noble

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