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Show The afeboat By Rev. Thomas B. Gregory. January 19, 1708. Till" date of tbr launching of the first successful lifdKnt Is clearly entitled to rank among the K'oai days of human n"hip finmil , and bOCAUSS 1 1 r n t Qreathead did, upon the innf-tecnth innf-tecnth da of January 1798, sccom-pllsh sccom-pllsh such triunrph, hln rjams should over hf retneinbered one r tii -.ii benefa tors f the human race. As is the case with nearly eyery BM-itt Invention) the honors rcsl with seversJ parttea Lionel Lukin the London coachmakei'i made llfeboai ii 17S?i. but upn )clnc put to the tsi ii proved to be Ineffectual. Bui ii niHln thing hari been accomplished accom-plished -the Ides fairly hom, hhi limr iiuiii taki oare o( the in 1789 the ship Adventure "t Newcastle, New-castle, was wrecked off the ISngiisb coast alul tli Ihs oi life Wrts ap- luliinc Th" vessel was stranded only some iijfo hundred yards from Shore, and yet nothing could be ii"n-for ii"n-for her- One bj one the i-n uid passengers dropped into the raging waters In 'he ?ighi of the thousandi of spectators n thf .shorn, end no I one i;iroo" to pui off in an ordinary boat to iii rescue. nut the men who watcned t,ir pathetic pa-thetic scans were buman iiuki, and i they at once got together t pnC-venti pnC-venti if pfssubie, s repetfllon ! Hie speotavle that bad ;iniist broken iiieir heart?. a committee was forme,! Mud premiums were offered for the construction of ;i lifeboat. Iffanji plans ware forthcoming, and (bully the lonnnltt :-le'ted i.'k- m-idoi thHi iiar-i been offered b; Qreathead The hoat thai Oreathead iuiit a success, and rtu- problem Of llfe-savlng llfe-savlng In shipwreck poixd Grenthead afterward bulll thirty on other lifeboat a eighteen for England, Eng-land, five for Scotland and .-ichi for foreign countries, all of whioh did exoeuenl serv lea Tlnjn had a beginning been medo, and slowh- but sorely 'he good WOrB ? to go on. l" conjunction with two nifmh-m ot parliament, . couple of piniani in opir gentleman named Thomas Wilson and CJoorK Hibbert founded "The Royal National Institution Insti-tution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck," out of which csane, in 182. ih" sjimndasl -.r England charitable societies ti" "Royal National Na-tional Lifeboat Institution." Hard at hM In llio 1 1 f of the mn who ' so (low n to tii 3 in shlpe"; and tri wlntr. When tli mr. e. tempest has ihm in i ii vrlnd, end lioMn them there until t)iv are dashed upon the wave-lashed recks, the sailor's lif i one of the inosl trying ti-.ai men are called upon u I follf-. Not la.-l Hinonjr the thloi- that gladden US lb" das Is tbe reflation re-flation that the omhlned Sympathy I nd skill of mankind have done so much for the safeguarding of the iives of shipwrecked mariners |