TITLE:
Rescue at sea : an international history of lifesaving, coastal rescue craft and organisations / Clayton Evans.
By:
Publication Date:
2003
Publication Information:
Annapolis, Md. : Naval Institute Press,
Physical Description:
296 p.: ill.
Summary:
This heavily illustrated volume offers a comprehensive and dramatic history of coastal life saving and rescues at sea from the earliest times to the present day. Divided into four sections, the book first covers the beginning of the humanitarian life-saving ethos in Europe and China and how it spread throughout the world, followed by a section on the milestones in rescue craft design, from the earliest pulling and sailing lifeboats to the high-speed lifeboats of today.
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781591147138
