$10.95pb

80 pgs. photos & illus. 2008 and 2000. i Upper elementary, middle school, high school. AR 7.3 MG.

Before there was a US Coast Guard, there was the US Lifesaving Service. The Service set up stations along the dangerous shores of the United States, from which men would row out in open boats to rescue passengers and crew of shipwrecked vessels. This book tells the story of a heroic all-African-American crew, and its leader Richard Etheridge, who worked at the Pea Island Life Saving Station on one of the Outer Banks islands off the coast of North Carolina.

Curriculum Applications: 3rd, 4th & 8th Grade Social Studies - biography, technology

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