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Night's Work on the Jersey Coast Saves Five Vessels
A 1880 Jersey Shore gale yielded five wrecks across four stations with 43 lives saved. Keeper Valentine and Surfmen Brunt, White, and Ferguson led daring rescues under freezing, surf-battered conditions. A brig Augu stina and the Babcock story ended with many survivors and one captain's suicide, while another crew pursued the Taulane along the beach in a grueling, hours-long chase.
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Department of the Lifesaving Service
Washington
Jersey
Department
Coast Patrol
Jersey Shore
Atlantic
Jersey Patrol
Charles H. Valentine
van Brunt
E. C. Babcock
Somers Point
Valentine
Babcock
Lfe
Augustina
Havana
Garrett White
White
van Brant
Surfman
Potter
Ferguson
Lockwood
Newman
Harding
George Taulane
Navesink
High Sea
Station No. 11
Chadwick
Station 12
Station 11
No. 12
Taulane