Our Sea-Coast Heroes, by Achilles Daunt

Our Sea-Coast Heroes, or Stories of wreck and of rescue by Lifeboat and Rocket
Achilles Daunt

Hardback with decorative cover and spine. Front endpaper inscribed, ‘Willi Lloyd, from Mrs DuCroy. Xmas 1892’. Small scuff at top of front endpaper. Otherwise in very good condition.

Contents: The invention of the lifeboat; The modern lifeboat and its construction; Rocket apparatus; The lifeboat at work mid-ocean; The wrecks of Indian Chief, Stanley, Mazinthien, Austria, Devon, Killarney, Providentia, Linda.

231 pages
14 b&w illustrations
135 mm x 188 mm (approx. 5.5 in x 7.5 in)
1889, T Nelson and Sons, London