FATAL CALL OF THE RUNNING TIDE - Lifeboat Rescues and Sea Dramas

Language: English

Published by Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1995

034063524X / 9780340635247

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198 pp. Blue boards lettered in gilt on the spine; illustrated with colour plates. Light wear at the corners of the dustjacket; price intact; no interior markings. The Chapters are: Prologue: A Wild Call and a Clear Call; Survivor; Capsize; Man Overboard; Those Infernal Ribble Banks - and the Lighter Side of Lifeboat Service; Hell and High Water; The Last Place in England; Triple Crew Copper; Voices Voices. I Heard Voices; The Captain and the Storm Petrel; Brush with Danger; Born to be Cox - and Coxswain Hornblower; The Daughters of Grace Darling; .and a Child of Neptune; The Tarts of Dungeness; A Price to Pay; Nightmares in Dover; The Deadly Goodwins; Caister Men Never Turn Back and Never Take No for an Answer; The Greatest Lifeboatman of Them All; Dylan Thomas and the Buoy Boy; Snarling Mountains of Fury and Two Lads Ready to Die for a Pint; Across the Sea to Ireland and Deadly Dublin Bay; The Marathon Men and the Christmas Tragedy; Valencia and the Floating Battlefield; Reprimanded for Saving a Life; The Menace of Ailsa Craig; The Son of the Island Crofter; Oil Rigs and a Roving Machanic; and Hell's Mouth and the Return of the Devil; followed by an index. Size: 8vo.…

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Title
FATAL CALL OF THE RUNNING TIDE - Lifeboat Rescues and Sea Dramas
Author
Cockcroft, Barry
Publisher
Hodder and Stoughton, London
Publication year
1995
Condition
Very Good
Dust jacket
Very Good
Book Type
Book
Binding
Hardcover
Language
English
ISBN 10
034063524X
ISBN 13
9780340635247
Edition
First Edition.
Seller catalogs
History - Great Britain, History - Nautical

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