From Baird Maritime
The English east coast port of Harwich is located close to the north side of the Thames estuary. It has for millennia been passed by a nearly constant parade of ships.
The area is at the heart of a mass of changing sand banks and it suffers from time-to-time from very bad weather. In other words, a place that practically invites maritime accidents.
It is, therefore, a place that has always needed an effective lifeboat or sea rescue service. Fortunately it has since the 1820s been blessed by the presence of a substantial and ever improving Royal National Lifeboat Institution station.
This very well illustrated and always interesting book tells the fascinating history of that very important RNLI station.
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