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Author : Alec John Dawson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Britain's Life-boats written by Alec John Dawson and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Grahame E. Farr
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (316 download)
Download or read book Lists of British Life-boats written by Grahame E. Farr and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Grahame E. Farr
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780902792104
Total Pages : 85 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (921 download)
Download or read book Lists of British Life-boats written by Grahame E. Farr and published by . This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Susan Hood
Publisher : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 1481468847
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (814 download)
Download or read book Lifeboat 12 written by Susan Hood and published by Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2019-09-03 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This page-turning true-life adventure is filled with rich and riveting details and a timeless understanding of the things that matter most.”—Dashka Slater, author of The 57 Bus “Brilliantly told in verse, readers will love Ken Sparks.” —Patricia Reilly Giff, two-time Newbery Honor winner “Lyrical, terrifying, and even at times funny. A richly detailed account of a little-known event in World War II.” —Kirkus Reviews “Middle grade Titanic fans, here’s your next read.” —BCCB “An edge-of-your seat survival tale.” —School Library Journal (starred review) A Junior Library Guild Selection The 2019 Golden Kite Middle Grade Fiction Award Winner A 2019 ALSC Notable Children’s Book The 2019–2020 Lectio Book Award Winner The 2020–2021 Florida Sunshine State Young Readers Award List The 2020 Oklahoma Library Association’s Children’s Sequoyah Book Award Winner The Connecticut Book Award Winner In the tradition of The War That Saved My Life and Stella By Starlight, this poignant novel in verse based on true events tells the story of a boy’s harrowing experience on a lifeboat after surviving a torpedo attack during World War II. With Nazis bombing London every night, it’s time for thirteen-year-old Ken to escape. He suspects his stepmother is glad to see him go, but his dad says he’s one of the lucky ones—one of ninety boys and girls to ship out aboard the SS City of Benares to safety in Canada. Life aboard the luxury ship is grand—nine-course meals, new friends, and a life far from the bombs, rations, and his stepmum’s glare. And after five days at sea, the ship’s officers announce that they’re out of danger. They’re wrong. Late that night, an explosion hurls Ken from his bunk. They’ve been hit. Torpedoed! The Benares is sinking fast. Terrified, Ken scrambles aboard Lifeboat 12 with five other boys. Will they get away? Will they survive? Award-winning author Susan Hood brings this little-known World War II story to life in a riveting novel of courage, hope, and compassion. Based on true events and real people, Lifeboat 12 is about believing in one another, knowing that only by banding together will we have any chance to survive.
Author : Richard Lewis
Publisher : London : Macmillan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)
Download or read book History of the Life-boat, and Its Work written by Richard Lewis and published by London : Macmillan. This book was released on 1874 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nicholas Leach
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781901703306
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (33 download)
Download or read book Lifeboat Directory written by Nicholas Leach and published by . This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Grahame Farr
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ISBN 13 : 9780902792135
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (921 download)
Download or read book British Life-boat Stations written by Grahame Farr and published by . This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John R. Stilgoe
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813922218
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (222 download)
Download or read book Lifeboat written by John R. Stilgoe and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Janet Gleeson
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504096428
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)
Download or read book The Lifeboat Baronet written by Janet Gleeson and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2024-08-20 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this historical biography, the life story of the founder of the United Kingdom’s royal charitable lifeboat service is revealed for the first time. Established in the nineteenth century when death from shipwreck was a tragic reality, the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) was created with the sole mission of saving lives. But little is known about the RNLI’s founder, Sir William Hillary. A handsome, charismatic figure known to be something of a philanderer, Hillary was a social climber born to a slave-holder’s family in Liverpool who mingled with royalty and married an heiress. So how did Hillary become one of England’s national heroes? Historian and bestselling author of The Arcanum Janet Gleeson reveals for the first time how a charming adventurer was inspired to lead the historic campaign for the creation of the National Institute for the Preservation of Life (today’s RNLI). Despite having never learned to swim himself, Hillary braved terrifying storms to save hundreds of lives during his quest. Drawing on previously unpublished letters—many of them written by Hillary himself—Gleeson narrates the fascinating story of the RNLI’s development, along with the Hillary’s political ties and private tribulations. For history lovers and fans of maritime adventure stories, Lifeboat Baronet is an absorbing account of how a Regency rake improbably became an important Victorian philanthropist and reformer.
Author : Nicholas Leach
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780752427843
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (278 download)
Download or read book Oakley Lifeboats written by Nicholas Leach and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Around the coasts of Britain, lifeboats serve and protect. The most famous of all the lifeboat types is the Oakley. Developed in the 1950s, the Oakley motor lifeboats have been responsible for the rescue of thousands of people from ships in distress. Only 44 were built but they were located at almost all of the UK's lifeboat stations and they lasted in service for up to thirty years. Each lifeboat is listed and a detailed history of each is provided. The book is profusely illustrated with over 120 images of the lifeboats.
Author : Ian Cameron
Publisher : Orion Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9780297607908
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (79 download)
Download or read book Riders of the Storm written by Ian Cameron and published by Orion Publishing Company. This book was released on 2002 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Britain's lifeboat crews who, for over nearly two centuries, have risked their own lives to rescue hundreds of thousands of men, women and children from the perils of the sea.
Author : Joseph Conrad
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521190592
Total Pages : 542 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (211 download)
Download or read book Last Essays written by Joseph Conrad and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-12-02 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first scholarly edition of Conrad's posthumously published prose pieces, as well as his Congo notebooks.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 982 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book T.P.'s and Cassell's Weekly written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 982 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bernard Ashley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780204746720
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (467 download)
Download or read book The Men and the Boats written by Bernard Ashley and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Bulletins from Britain written by and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edwin Hodder
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 722 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Heroes of Britain in Peace and War written by Edwin Hodder and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Great Britain
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1204 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Paris Universal Exhibition of 1867. Catalogue of the British Section written by Great Britain and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 1204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
