Download or read book An Appeal to the British Nation on the Humanity and Policy of Forming a National Institution for the Preservation of Lives and Property from Shipwreck written by William Hillary and published by . This book was released on 1825 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An appeal to the British Nation Fifth edition written by Sir William HILLARY and published by . This book was released on 1825 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book National Library of Medicine Current Catalog written by National Library of Medicine (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 1332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Monthly Review Or Literary Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1823 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Monthly Review written by Ralph Griffiths and published by . This book was released on 1823 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Current Catalog written by National Library of Medicine (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.
Download or read book The Lifeboat Service in England The North West and Isle of Man written by Nicholas Leach and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2017-06-15 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the lifeboat stations of the north-west of England and the Isle of Man.
Download or read book One Crew The RNLI s Official 200 Year History written by Helen Doe and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2024-02-15 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes a fresh look at the creation of the Institution, and its early founders and examines how it has responded over 200 years.
Download or read book The Lifeboat Service in England The South West and Bristol Channel written by Nicholas Leach and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2016-01-15 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of every lifeboat station on the South-West Coast along with rescue stories.
Download or read book Invention of an Effective and Unfailing Method for Forming an Instantaneous Communication with the Shore in Shipwreck and Illuminating the Scene in the Dark and Tempestuous Night written by John Murray and published by . This book was released on 1831 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Time Traveler s Guide to Regency Britain written by Ian Mortimer and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-04-05 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vivid and immersive history of Georgian England that gives its reader a firsthand experience of life as it was truly lived during the era of Jane Austen, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and the Duke of Wellington. This is the age of Jane Austen and the Romantic poets; the paintings of John Constable and the gardens of Humphry Repton; the sartorial elegance of Beau Brummell and the poetic licence of Lord Byron; Britain's military triumphs at Trafalgar and Waterloo; the threat of revolution and the Peterloo massacre. In the latest volume of his celebrated series of Time Traveler's Guides, Ian Mortimer turns to what is arguably the most-loved period in British history: the Regency, or Georgian England. A time of exuberance, thrills, frills and unchecked bad behavior, it was perhaps the last age of true freedom before the arrival of the stifling world of Victorian morality. At the same time, it was a period of transition that reflected unprecedented social, economic, and political change. And like all periods in history, it was an age of many contradictions—where Beethoven's thundering Fifth Symphony could premier in the same year that saw Jane Austen craft the delicate sensitivities of Persuasion. Once more, Ian Mortimer takes us on a thrilling journey to the past, revealing what people ate, drank, and wore; where they shopped and how they amused themselves; what they believed in, and what they were afraid of. Conveying the sights, sound,s and smells of the Regency period, this is history at its most exciting, physical, visceral—the past not as something to be studied but as lived experience.
Download or read book The Lifeboat Baronet written by Janet Gleeson and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2024-08-20 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this historical biography, the life story of the founder of the United Kingdom’s royal charitable lifeboat service is revealed for the first time. Established in the nineteenth century when death from shipwreck was a tragic reality, the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) was created with the sole mission of saving lives. But little is known about the RNLI’s founder, Sir William Hillary. A handsome, charismatic figure known to be something of a philanderer, Hillary was a social climber born to a slave-holder’s family in Liverpool who mingled with royalty and married an heiress. So how did Hillary become one of England’s national heroes? Historian and bestselling author of The Arcanum Janet Gleeson reveals for the first time how a charming adventurer was inspired to lead the historic campaign for the creation of the National Institute for the Preservation of Life (today’s RNLI). Despite having never learned to swim himself, Hillary braved terrifying storms to save hundreds of lives during his quest. Drawing on previously unpublished letters—many of them written by Hillary himself—Gleeson narrates the fascinating story of the RNLI’s development, along with the Hillary’s political ties and private tribulations. For history lovers and fans of maritime adventure stories, Lifeboat Baronet is an absorbing account of how a Regency rake improbably became an important Victorian philanthropist and reformer.
Download or read book Lifeboat Stations of North East England From Sunderland to the Humber Through Time written by Paul Chrystal and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2012-11-15 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which Lifeboat Stations of North East England have changed and developed over the last century
Download or read book Commemorating the Seafarer written by Barbara Tomlinson and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2015 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A generously illustrated survey of memorials to different kinds of seafarers, recounting the stories behind them.
Download or read book Horrible Shipwreck written by Andrew C A Jampoler and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On August 25, 1833, the British convict ship Amphitrite, filled with more than one hundred women prisoners and their children along with a crew of thirteen, left London for a convict colony in New South Wales. Less than a week later, all but three died when a savage storm battered their ship to pieces on the beach at Boulogne--in sight of hundreds of horrified onlookers. Inexplicably, the captain, John Hunter, had refused offers of aid from the shore. Sensational news coverage of the calamity prompted an Admiralty investigation to find out who was responsible. The suspicion was that Hunter and the surgeon aboard rejected assistance because they feared the women would escape custody. Some blamed the doctor’s wife because she had refused to go ashore in the same boat with the convicts so no boat was launched. Colorfully set in the political and social context of early 19th century Great Britain, this account of the shipwreck is peopled with a fascinating cast of characters that includes John Wilks, the Paris correspondent of a London newspaper whose reporting triggered public emotions; Lord Palmerston, the British foreign secretary; William Hamilton, the British consul who led the investigation; Sarah Austin, a British expatriate whose heroism the night of the wreck merits an award; and a Prussian prince. Drawing from government records in England, Scotland, and France, and from contemporary reports, Andrew Jampoler spins a memorable sea tale that is entirely true yet rivals the best of fiction. Readers will find this latest addition to his growing body of works firmly cements Jampoler’s reputation as a master storyteller.
Download or read book The Wreckers written by Bella Bathurst and published by HMH. This book was released on 2013-08-23 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An “entertaining” historical investigation into the scavengers who have profited off the spoils of maritime disasters (The Washington Post). Even today, Britain’s coastline remains a dangerous place. It is an island soaked by four separate seas, with shifting sand banks to the east, veiled reefs to the west, powerful currents above, and the world’s busiest shipping channel below. The country’s offshore waters are strewn with shipwrecks—and for villagers scratching out an existence along Britain’s shores, those wrecks have been more than simply an act of God; in many cases, they have been the difference between living well and just getting by. Though Daphne du Maurier and Poldark have made Cornwall famous as Britain’s most notorious region for wrecking, many other coastal communities regarded the “sea’s bounty” as a way of providing themselves with everything from grapefruits to grand pianos. Some plunderers were held to be so skilled that they could strip a ship from stem to stern before the Coast Guard had even left port. Some were rumored to lure ships onto the rocks with false lights, and some simply waited for winter gales to do their work. This book uncovers tales of ships and shipwreck victims—from shoreline orgies so Dionysian that few participants survived the morning to humble homes fitted with silver candelabra, from coastlines rigged like stage sets to villages where everyone owns identical tennis shoes. Spanning three hundred years of history, The Wreckers examines the myths, realities, and superstitions of shipwrecks and uncovers the darker side of life on Britain’s shores. “Bathurst, who won a Somerset Maugham Award for The Lighthouse Stevensons, offers a spellbinding tale of seafaring men, their ships and the ocean that cares for neither.” —Publishers Weekly “A fascinating, haunting account of pillagers, plunderers, and pirates.” —John Burnett, author of Dangerous Waters: Modern Piracy and Terror on the High Seas
Download or read book The Lifeboat Service in England The North East Coast written by Nicholas Leach and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nicholas Leach has amassed a wealth of information about the lifeboats and lifeboat stations of the North East which he showcases here.
