sentences:  Captain Joshua James, as he now came to be called, continued in his chosen profession until his appointment as keeper of the Point Allerton Life–Saving Station in 1889.Joshua's lifesaving activities began on December 17, 1841, when he was just 15 years old.Five years after the death of his mother and sister, Joshua James leaped aboard a surfboat manned by volunteers from the local chapter of the Massachusetts Humane Society at Hull heading toward the ship "Mohawk" which was being "hammered shapeless" off Allerton Beach at Harding's Ledge.