Beginning with their first development, Nicholas Leach traces the life of the Oakley and Rother class lifeboats with photographs and text. He looks at their origins, their timein service, and t
Includes descriptions of outstanding rescues, volunteer crews and the lifeboats that have served. Unpublished photographs and some stunning colour illustrations. The first history of this lifeboat sta
The Royal National Lifeboat Institution was established in 1824 and has a long and proud tradition of saving life at sea. Today, the volunteer lifeboat crews on the coasts of Cornwall, North Devon and
All civilizations have faced the challenges and dangers of trading by sea: storms, bad weather, and the hazards of cliffs, headlands, reefs and sandbanks, threatening their safe passage into ports and