| The Gleam That Brings Hope | Frontispiece |
| FACING PAGE |
| The Light That Never Sleeps | 10 |
| The Lonely Watcher of the Coast | 20 |
| Where Patrols Meet. The Half-way Point | 20 |
| Breaking a Death-Clutch from Behind | 32 |
| Breaking a Death-Clutch from the Front | 32 |
| The "Eddystone" of America | 42 |
| Lighthouse Tender Approaching Buoy | 54 |
| Refilling Pintsch Gas Buoy | 54 |
| Sliding Down to Work | 64 |
| The Defier of the Pacific | 76 |
| A Beacon Masked in Ice | 86 |
| Wrecked! And the Ice Between! | 100 |
| Laying the Lyle Gun | 110 |
| Firing the Shot and Line | 110 |
| Gold Life-Saving Medal | 118 |
| Life-boat Capsize-Drill | 138 |
| Rushing the Apparatus-Cart | 146 |
| Breeches-Buoy Drill. Firing | 158 |
| Breeches-Buoy Drill. Rescuing Survivor | 158 |
| The Lightship That Went Ashore | 168 |
| Guarding the Graveyard of the Deep | 168 |
| Coast Guard Cutter, Miami, on July Fourth | 194 |
| The Bear in the Ice Pack | 202 |
| The Bear Breaking Free from the Ice | 202 |
| Reindeer Messengers of Rescue | 210 |
| Reindeer That Saved Three Hundred Lives | 210 |
| Signals That Guard Our Coast | 224 |
| Going to Pieces Fast | 234 |
| "We Saved 'Em All" | 234 |
| Native Refugees from Katmai Eruption | 244 |
| "The Iron Rim Rolling Savagely" | 256 |
| "The Boat Went into Matchwood" | 266 |
| Man's Waterspout. A Derelict's End | 280 |
| Preparing to Blow Up a Derelict | 280 |
| The Greatest Menace of the Seas | 290 |
| Burned to the Water's Edge | 290 |
| Foam—The Derelict's Only Tombstone | 300 |
| Mining a Lurking Peril | 300 |
| Stranded! After Storm Has Ceased and Tide Has Ebbed | 310 |
| The Signal of Distress That Was Never Seen | THE BOY WITH THE U.S. LIFE-SAVERS
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