sentences:  Captain James and his volunteers had to pull their beach cart with rescue equipment nine miles overland through snow and slush to get to the wreck site.Efforts to fire lines out to the "H. C. Higginson" failed due to debris fouling the lines, and the Cohasset and Scituate crews left the wreck site, so it was necessary to launch the untested surfboat, the "Nantasket".The rescue was extremely dangerous because the waves were breaking around the wrecked "H. C. Higginson".