Lifeboat Sailors
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Lifeboat Sailors
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Author : Dennis L. Noble
language : en
Publisher: Potomac Books
Release Date : 2000
Lifeboat Sailors written by Dennis L. Noble and has been published by Potomac Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Lifeboat service categories.
Written by a former Coast Guard senior chief, this volume explores the state of the Coast Guard's small boat rescue crews. He tells the stories of a number of rescues. He also explores the bureaucratic structure of the service and recounts complaints of station personnel that the command structure i
A Practical Guide To Lifeboat Survival
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: US Naval Institute Press
Release Date : 1996
A Practical Guide To Lifeboat Survival written by and has been published by US Naval Institute Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Boats and boating categories.
When three French sailors were rescued after 13 days adrift in the Pacific, they attributed their survival and rescue to a manual required aboard all French lifeboats. That manual has now been translated into English and is here available to the American public. Survivors and professionals alike wholeheartedly recommend this priceless guide for everyone venturing to sea. 150 drawings. 2 ocean-current charts. Plotting tool.
The Lifeboat
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Author : Robert Michael Ballantyne
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1870
The Lifeboat written by Robert Michael Ballantyne and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1870 with Conduct of life categories.
Lifeboatmen
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Author : Simon Wills
language : en
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Release Date : 2014-03-03
Lifeboatmen written by Simon Wills and has been published by Pen and Sword this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-03 with Fiction categories.
Based on a true story, a riveting novel of a deadly hurricane, a dramatic rescue attempt, and a quest for redemption in a nineteenth-century English town . . . Dorset, England, 1866: The worst hurricane in over a century is devastating the south coast of England. In the town of Poole, the newly appointed lifeboat is launched to aid the numerous stricken ships in the vicinity—but unaccountably fails to save any lives. Many sailors drown as a result. In an era when gallantry and self-sacrifice are expected, the lifeboatmen are publicly accused of cowardice by local dignitaries, creating a serious rift in a close-knit community. It is in this atmosphere of suspicion and blame that lifeboat coxswain Richard Stokes finds himself tasked with overcoming a prevailing sense of pessimism and creating a viable team that will be ready for the next maritime emergency. By recognizing the weaknesses that lie within both his crew and himself, he endeavors to take the sometimes-painful steps to put things right. In a divided community battered by the rages of the sea, relationships and loyalties are tested. When another opportunity eventually presents itself for the lifeboatmen to test their mettle, they are prepared to venture into violent seas to the site of a treacherously unstable wreck—in an attempt to redeem themselves, and to save forty-six souls trapped on board . . . This fast-paced historical novel based on a true story provides an authentic and enthralling evocation of a seafaring community on the brink of great change.
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.
Lighthouses Cutters And Lifeboat Stations
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Author : S. Matthew Grayson
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2016-12-19
Lighthouses Cutters And Lifeboat Stations written by S. Matthew Grayson and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-19 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The United States Coast Guard has a saying: You have to go out; you dont have to come back. I am still looking for the person who came up with that saying (Rodger D. Dewey, retired master chief boatswains mate E-9). Follow the twenty-eight years of memories of a seventeen-year-old young man from Denver, Colorado, who joined the United States Coast Guard in 1948 and made the United States Coast Guard his life. Follow the training, lessons learned, funny stories, and a true love of being a shallow-water sailor.
The Lifeboat
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Author : Robert Michael Ballantyne
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1865
The Lifeboat written by Robert Michael Ballantyne and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1865 with Conduct of life categories.
Stories Of The Lifeboat
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Author : Frank Mundell
language : en
Publisher: Good Press
Release Date : 2020-03-16
Stories Of The Lifeboat written by Frank Mundell and has been published by Good Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-16 with Fiction categories.
"Stories of the Lifeboat" by Frank Mundell is a compilation of exciting English lifeboat service tales. The book also includes illustrations along with true historical stories.
Syd Chaplin
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Author : Lisa K. Stein
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2014-01-10
Syd Chaplin written by Lisa K. Stein and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-10 with Performing Arts categories.
This is the first study of the life and art of Sydney Chaplin, Charlie Chaplin's brother, a person notable not only for his importance in establishing his brother's career, but in several other early Hollywood enterprises, including the founding of United Artists and the Syd Chaplin Aircraft Corporation, America's first domestic airline. Sydney also had a successful film career, beginning in 1914 with Keystone and culminating with a string of popular films for Warner Bros. in the 1920s. Sydney's film career ended in 1929 because of an assault charge by an actress. This incident proved to be only the last in a string of scandals, each causing him to move to another place, another studio, or another business venture.
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.