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Lifeboat Heroes: Outstanding RNLI Rescues From Three Centuries - Hardcover

Buch 2 von 3: Search and Rescue

Wake-Walker, Edward

 
9781844255450: Lifeboat Heroes: Outstanding RNLI Rescues From Three Centuries
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 184425545X ISBN 13: 9781844255450
Verlag: Haynes, 2009

Inhaltsangabe

The RNLI is at the forefront of saving lives around Britain's coasts. Putting to sea in all weathers, its crews are on duty 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Edward Wake-Walker describes 16 dramatic rescues spanning 200 years in the RNLI's distinguished history. The earliest story is that of Sir William Hillary, founder of the RNLI, who rescued all 17 crew and passengers from the Fortroendet aground in 1827. A more recent account concerns helicopter winch man, Bill Deacon, who died after saving the last ten men from the freighter Green Lily in a hurricane in 1997, and coxswain Hewitt Clark who brought his lifeboat alongside the ship and saved five of her crew.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Edward Wake-Walker worked for twenty-eight years with the RNLI, the final sixteen as PR Director. He is the author of several books on the RNLI and its history: Gold Medal Rescues (David & Charles, 1992), Lost Photographs of the RNLI (Sutton, 2004), and The Lifeboat Story (Sutton 2007).

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Verlag
Haynes
Erscheinungsdatum
2009
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
184425545X
ISBN 13 
9781844255450
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
272
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