The most amazing life-boat story of them all? The cottagers just down the road from where the Louisa was nudging her slow way, inch by inch along Mrs Washford's wall, had come out into the road to see what was going on. A hundred yards further on, down at the Ship Inn, the maids were already making up the fires and putting kettles on. Looking out at the windows, they saw to their amazement the strange boat, and all the glare of the flares, and all the people and the horses up the road.' The Overland Launch written and illustrated by C. Walter Hodges Many life-boatmen will already know the story of the Lynmouth life-boat Louisa and the night of 12-13 January 1899 when, because she could not be launched from her own slipway, she was hauled by her crew, half of Lynmouth village and a team of eighteen horses fourteen miles over the cliffs to Porlock Weir, and launched from there, in time to go to the rescue of a ship adrift in the Bristol Channel. Now the story of this extraordinary journey, which took up ten hours of a wild winter's night, is retold in fictional form for children by one of Britain's master storytellers. The story has been told before, but never like this, never with such power. And never with such illustrations—drawings exactly capturing the epic qualities of this, the most amazing night in the history of the English lifeboat service.

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