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Lifeboat Directory

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Author : Nicholas Leach
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013-05-13

Lifeboat Directory written by Nicholas Leach and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-13 with Lifeboats categories.

Lists Of British Lifeboats

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Author : Jeff Morris
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008

Lists Of British Lifeboats written by Jeff Morris and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with categories.

Harwich Lifeboats

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Author : Nicholas Leach
language : en
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Release Date : 2011-10-15

Harwich Lifeboats written by Nicholas Leach and has been published by Amberley Publishing Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-15 with Transportation categories.

The history of the Harwich Lifeboat.

Mayday Mayday The History Of Sea Rescue Around Britain S Coastal Waters

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Author : Karen Farrington
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Release Date : 2011-11-24

Mayday Mayday The History Of Sea Rescue Around Britain S Coastal Waters written by Karen Farrington and has been published by HarperCollins UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11-24 with History categories.

Lifeboats occupy a particular place in people’s hearts as unpaid volunteers regularly take to their boats often in extremely adverse conditions to rescue others from the sea.

Sennen Cove Lifeboats

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Author : Nicholas Leach
language : en
Publisher: The History Press
Release Date : 2014-08-04

Sennen Cove Lifeboats written by Nicholas Leach and has been published by The History Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-04 with Transportation categories.

Considered one of the most treacherous areas of Britain's coastline, Land's End has seen many shipwrecks over the past 2,000 years. Where the waters of the Atlantic meet those of the English Channel, storms are frequent and violent and have caught out many a ship. Thousands have been dashed against the rocky granite coast. In 1853, the RNLI established a lifeboat station at nearby Sennen Cove and the people of this small Cornish village have been saving lives ever since. The crews of Sennen have saved many lives in the past 160 years, helping those in distress from sailing dinghies to the largest of cargo ships. Nicholas Leach tells the story of Sennen's lifeboats and the volunteer lifeboat crews who have manned them in this fully revised and updated history of the lifeboat and wrecks off the tip of Cornwall.

Britain S Life Boats

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Author : Alec John Dawson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1923

Britain S Life Boats written by Alec John Dawson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1923 with Lifeboat service categories.

History Of The Life Boat And Its Work

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Author : Richard Lewis
language : en
Publisher: London : Macmillan
Release Date : 1874

History Of The Life Boat And Its Work written by Richard Lewis and has been published by London : Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1874 with Lifeboats categories.

Alphabetical List Of British Offshore Lifeboats

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Author : Jeff Morris
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009

Alphabetical List Of British Offshore Lifeboats written by Jeff Morris and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Lifeboats categories.

Riders Of The Storm

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Author : Ian Cameron
language : en
Publisher: Orion
Release Date : 2009

Riders Of The Storm written by Ian Cameron and has been published by Orion this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Lifeboat service categories.

History.

Lifeboat

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Author : John R. Stilgoe
language : en
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Release Date : 2003

Lifeboat written by John R. Stilgoe and has been published by University of Virginia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

The fire extinguisher; the airline safety card; the lifeboat. Until September 11, 2001, most Americans paid homage to these appurtenances of disaster with a sidelong glance, if at all. But John Stilgoe has been thinking about lifeboats ever since he listened with his father as the kitchen radio announced that the liner Lakonia had caught fire and sunk in the Atlantic. It was Christmas 1963, and airline travel and Cold War paranoia had made the images of an ocean liner's distress--the air force dropping supplies in the dark, a freighter collecting survivors from lifeboats--seem like echoes of a bygone era. But Stilgoe, already a passionate reader and an aficionado of small-boat navigation, began to delve into accounts of other disasters at sea. What he found was a trunkful of hair-raising stories--of shipwreck, salvation, seamanship brilliant and inept, noble sacrifice, insanity, cannibalism, courage and cravenness, even scandal. In nonfiction accounts and in the works of Conrad, Melville, and Tomlinson, fear and survival animate and degrade human nature, in the microcosm of an open boat as in society at large. How lifeboats are made, rigged, and captained, Stilgoe discovered, and how accounts of their use or misuse are put down, says much about the culture and circumstances from which they are launched. In the hands of a skillful historian such as Stilgoe, the lifeboat becomes a symbol of human optimism, of engineering ingenuity, of bureaucratic regulation, of fear and frailty. Woven through Lifeboat are good old-fashioned yarns, thrilling tales of adventure that will quicken the pulse of readers who have enjoyed the novels of Patrick O'Brian, Crabwalk by G nter Grass, or works of nonfiction such as The Perfect Storm and In the Heart of the Sea. But Stilgoe, whose other works have plumbed suburban culture, locomotives, and the shore, is ultimately after bigger fish. Through the humble, much-ignored lifeboat, its design and navigation and the stories of its ultimate purpose, he has found a peculiar lens on roughly the past two centuries of human history, particularly the war-tossed, technology-driven history of man and the sea.