The Life Savers of Cape Cod

Overflowing with period photographs, illustrations and maps, The Life Savers of Cape Cod brings to life a unique age of heroism along the treacherous shores of Olde Cape Cod. In 1902, writer J. W. Dalton set out to visit each of the thirteen U.S. Life-Saving Service stations on Cape Cod, from Wood End n the north to Monomoy Point in the south. His book, The Life Savers of Cape Cod, published late that year, remains the most minutely detailed account of station life at the high point of the service’s existence. Dalton’s research covers not only the history of the stations but also each keeper and surfman then serving along the Cape’s seashore. He even includes names and habits of the station’s pets. Keeper Seth Ellis of the Monomoy Station even tells his version of the life-station disaster of the previous March 17, of which Ellis was the only survivor. Soft cover 152 pages by J. W. Dalton.