'Storm Warriors of the Suffolk Coast' by Ernest Read Cooper was first published in 1936. This updated edition is revised and edited by East Anglian maritime author Robert Malster and now includes a selection of photographs, many taken by the author when manager of Southwold lifeboat station in Suffolk. It recalls remarkable stories of rescue at sea by the fishermen and beachmen of the towns of Southwold, Aldeburgh and Lowestoft. These stories of wreck and rescue will prove fascinating to all who enjoy stories of the sea and ...
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'Storm Warriors of the Suffolk Coast' by Ernest Read Cooper was first published in 1936. This updated edition is revised and edited by East Anglian maritime author Robert Malster and now includes a selection of photographs, many taken by the author when manager of Southwold lifeboat station in Suffolk. It recalls remarkable stories of rescue at sea by the fishermen and beachmen of the towns of Southwold, Aldeburgh and Lowestoft. These stories of wreck and rescue will prove fascinating to all who enjoy stories of the sea and to social historians looking at seaside communities in the 19th and 20th centuries. Independent lifeboats and lifeboats of the RNLI in the days of oars and sail, are all part of the book.
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Seller's Description:
Good. No Jacket. Hardback, no dust-wrapper. 178pp. 1st edition 1937. Binding a little marked, with some rubbing to titles to spine. Previous owner's label to front pastedown. Ffep clipped. A decent copy. (p14)
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Original blue cloth with slight wear at extremities, very light spotting to fore-edge, otherwise very good in a near very good, slightly rubbed, marked and edge torn dust jacket.