RNLI MOTOR LIFEBOATS
Written by Nicholas Leach
Published by Landmark Publishing
in 2005
ISBN: 1843062011
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- TRANSPORT
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- HISTORY
- HISTORY (BRITISH)
RNLI MOTOR LIFEBOATS
Written by Nicholas Leach.
Stock no. 1829472
1st.
2005.
Hardback.
Large format.
Very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.
The History and Development of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution's motor lifeboats. Large format. B/w photos and diagrams. 160 pages includes index. ISBN: 1843062011. Bump to top of spine at both front and rear edge. Else contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is creased at top of spine where bumping has occurred.
Front cover
Contents
- PART 1 Development of the motor lifeboat
- Steam power
- The first steps to motorisation
- Twin engines and diesels
- Rebuilding after World War II
- The quest for speed
- Inshore lifeboats
- Into the twenty-first century
- PART2 Motor lifeboats of the RNLI
- Lifeboat tables
- Appendices
- 1. Motor lifeboats sold abroad
- 2. Motor lifeboats on display
- Index
- Bibliography