NEWS FROM THE DART LIFEBOAT
FASCINATING BOOKS ABOUT THE RNLI - FIVE GREAT CHRISTMAS PRESENT IDEAS
NEVER TURN BACK: THE RNLI SINCE THE SECOND WORLD WAR (HARDCOVER) BY RAY AND SUSANNAH KIPLING Triumph and disaster....
reluctant
heroes.... lifeboat VCs .... overseas adventures …. why do they do it? The compelling story of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution from the mid-20th century to the present day.
The book is based on the authors’ personal and extensive knowledge of the lifeboat services and draws on first hand accounts of the rescues and decisions that shaped the changing lifeboat service, particularly from the mid-60s. ISBN 0-7509-4307-6 Sutton publishing Price £19.99 210 pgs, b/w pictures./photos
PENLEE: THE LOSS OF A LIFEBOAT (PAPERBACK) BY MICHAEL SAGAR- FENTON
A moving account of a tragic story. On the night of 19 December 1981 the Penlee lifeboat Solomon Browne was launched to go to the rescue of the stricken coaster Union Star. record of that fateful night.
This is a
First published in 1991 and immediately acclaimed as a classic of lifeboat literature. This is a revised edition, based wherever possible on first hand interviews. Ten per cent of the author’s royalties and a matched donation from the publishers are pledged to the RNLI Penlee branch.
ISBN 978-185022-128-9 Truran
www.truranbooks.co.uk Price £9.99
87 pgs, b/w pictures
DEVON’S LIFEBOAT HERITAGE (PAPERBACK) BY NICHOLAS LEACH A compact little book packed with detailed information about the lifeboat stations operating in the county with a map showing the location of all the RNLI lifeboat stations in North and South Devon. There are two pages about the Dart lifeboat station, established in
October 2007.
The book is full of dramatic photographs of old and new lifeboats, wrecks and rescues. ISBN 978-0 90629-472-7
Twelveheads Press
www.twelveheads.com Price £4.50 51 pgs, b/w and colour photographs
RIDERS OF THE STORM -THE STORY OF THE RNLI (PAPERBACK) BY IAN CAMERON
Saving lives from the waters around the coasts of Britain and Ireland doesn’t get any less hazardous. Storms are as bad as ever and ships still get into difficulties. This authorised history of the RNLI tells the story of our lifeboat crews
who, for 180 years, have risked their own lives to rescue people from the perils of the sea. ISBN 978-07528-8344-1 Orion Books Ltd Price £14.99
264pgs, maps, diagrams, b/w and colour photographs
MAYDAY! MAYDAY! - THE HISTORY OF COASTAL RESCUE IN BRITAIN & IRELAND (HARDBACK) BY KAREN FARRINGTON AND NICK CONSTABLE.
This book accompanies the recent ITV series, started in September this year. It tells of the tragedies and events that led to the formation of the
RNLI, as well as looking at the debates, arguments and darker moments in its earlier history.
Each chapter offers a regional perspective of heroic tales and rescues from the past to more recent events in the RNLI’s history. The final chapter sets out the developments and aspirations of the charity. ISBN 978-000744338-3 Collins Price £20 Fully illustrated
The books reviewed are available from Amazon via the RNLI website at
rnli.org.Uk/amazon. (Amazon will donate a minimum of 5% of the value of all such orders to the RNLI but you must access Amazon via the rnli website and not go direct).
For up to date news of the Dart lifeboat please visit the local website of www.dartlife-
boat.org.uk (where news of recent launches as well as social events can be found). Janet Hall Dart RNLI Assistant Press officer
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