Chapter 1

THE GRAVEYARD OF THE DEEP 322

ILLUSTRATIONS

FACING PAGE The Gleam That Brings Hope _Frontispiece_

The Light That Never Sleeps 10

The Lonely Watcher of the Coast 20

Where Patrols Meet. The Half-way Point 20

Breaking a Death-Clutch from Behind 32

Breaking a Death-Clutch from the Front 32

The "Eddystone" of America 42

Lighthouse Tender Approaching Buoy 54

Refilling Pintsch Gas Buoy 54

Sliding Down to Work 64

The Defier of the Pacific 76

A Beacon Masked in Ice 86

Wrecked! And the Ice Between! 100

Laying the Lyle Gun 110

Firing the Shot and Line 110

Gold Life-Saving Medal 118

Life-boat Capsize-Drill 138

Rushing the Apparatus-Cart 146

Breeches-Buoy Drill. Firing 158

Breeches-Buoy Drill. Rescuing Survivor 158

The Lightship That Went Ashore 168

Guarding the Graveyard of the Deep 168

Coast Guard Cutter, _Miami_, on July Fourth 194

The _Bear_ in the Ice Pack 202

The _Bear_ Breaking Free from the Ice 202

Reindeer Messengers of Rescue 210

Reindeer That Saved Three Hundred Lives 210

Signals That Guard Our Coast 224

Going to Pieces Fast 234

"We Saved 'Em All" 234

Native Refugees from Katmai Eruption 244

"The Iron Rim Rolling Savagely" 256

"The Boat Went into Matchwood" 266

Man's Waterspout. A Derelict's End 280

Preparing to Blow Up a Derelict 280

The Greatest Menace of the Seas 290

Burned to the Water's Edge 290

Foam--The Derelict's Only Tombstone 300

Mining a Lurking Peril 300

Stranded! After Storm Has Ceased and Tide Has Ebbed 310

The Signal of Distress That Was Never Seen 320

Iceberg with _Miami_ in the Background 330

The Ghostly Ally of Disaster 330

A Rescue on the Diamond Shoals 340

THE BOY WITH THE U. S. LIFE-SAVERS