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Author : Richard Rowe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)
Download or read book The History of a Lifeboat written by Richard Rowe and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 : Richard Rowe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 139 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (19 download)
Download or read book The History of a Lifeboat written by Richard Rowe and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Various
Publisher : Wilson Press
ISBN 13 : 9781447413769
Total Pages : 554 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (137 download)
Download or read book A History of the Lifeboat - A Collection of Historical Articles on the Origins, Development and Rescue Missions of Lifeboats written by Various and published by Wilson Press. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains classic material dating back to the 1900s and before. The content has been carefully selected for its interest and relevance to a modern audience.
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 : James C. Dibdin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Book of the Lifeboat written by James C. Dibdin and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert M. Ballantyne
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3941842935
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (418 download)
Download or read book Battles with the Sea written by Robert M. Ballantyne and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2009 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Das Buch erzählt die Geschichte der englischen Seenotrettung von den Anfängen bis zum 19. Jahrhundert. This book tells the story of the maritime salvage in Britain from the beginning until the 19th century.
Author : Morrison and Gibb
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 123 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (234 download)
Download or read book The History of a Lifeboat written by Morrison and Gibb and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nicholas Leach
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781843062011
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (62 download)
Download or read book RNLI Motor Lifeboats written by Nicholas Leach and published by . This book was released on 2005-11 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This two-part book traces the history of motor lifeboats, from the first tentative steps to the development of today's sophisticated machines. The first part describes the process and development of the fleet over the last 100 years and the second part describes all known types of vessel in detail.
Author : Bernie Webber
Publisher : Universal-Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1627340629
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (273 download)
Download or read book Lightships, Lighthouses, and Lifeboat Stations written by Bernie Webber and published by Universal-Publishers. This book was released on 2015-12-07 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lightships, Lighthouses and Lifeboat Stations is part history book, part memoir, written by Bernie Webber, recipient of the Coast Guard’s highest award, the Gold Life-saving Medal, and hero of the Disney movie The Finest Hours. While the public will recognize Webber’s name from the movie and the bestselling book by the same name, few people know that during his lengthy Coast Guard career he served on lightships (ships anchored in dangerous areas to warn other vessels of hazards) in addition to lifeboat stations (small boat rescue stations) and lighthouses. Webber poses the following question: “How did the lightship men cope with the isolation, constant loneliness, boredom, fear, or just sheer terror? All were part of life on board a lightship. Rough seas tossed the ship about, rearing up and down the anchor chain. This was a world of isolation, noise from operating machinery, and blasts from the powerful foghorn that went on for hours, sometimes days, at a time.” Webber answers that question in this book, drawing on a combination of personal experience and meticulous historical research. Discussions of men going mad, lightships being run down by larger ships, anchor chains breaking, and lightships cast upon shoals are offset with humorous stories and the author’s reflections on his best days at sea. Webber also explains some of the heroic actions of a few lightship men over the years, and points out that they received no recognition at the time. The isolation these men faced was intense, but they learned to make do with what they had. Fourteen historic photos are included, as well as a Foreword by Michael Tougias.
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 : Andrew Doherty
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750995947
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)
Download or read book Waterford Harbour written by Andrew Doherty and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2020-09-30 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Waterford harbour has centuries of tradition based on its extensive fishery and maritime trade. Steeped in history, customs and an enviable spirit, it was there that Andrew Doherty was born and raised amongst a treasure chest of stories spun by the fishermen, sailors and their families. As an adult he began to research these accounts and, to his surprise, found many were based on fact. In this book, Doherty will take you on a fascinating journey along the harbour, introduce you to some of its most important sites and people, the area's history, and some of its most fantastic tales. Dreaded press gangs who raided whole communities for crew, the search for buried gold and a ship seized by pirates, the horror of a German bombing of the rural idyll during the Second World War – on every page of this incredible account you will learn something of the maritime community of Waterford Harbour.
Author : James C Dibdin
Publisher : Palala Press
ISBN 13 : 9781357073473
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (734 download)
Download or read book The Book of the Lifeboat written by James C Dibdin and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2016-05-18 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Alan Salsbury
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781841142753
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (427 download)
Download or read book A History of the Plymouth Lifeboats written by Alan Salsbury and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James C. Dibdin
Publisher : Palala Press
ISBN 13 : 9781341249235
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (492 download)
Download or read book The Book of the Lifeboat written by James C. Dibdin and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2015-09-02 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
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 : Richard Lewis
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3368833308
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (688 download)
Download or read book History of the Life-Boat written by Richard Lewis and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-08-15 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.
