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• In good time for Christmas is another addition to the popular 'People at Work' books in the Ladybird 'Easy-Reading' series nownumbering over 290 titles covering a wide range of subjects and reading ages. It is The Life-boat...

0 Shipwreck by Vcra Cumberlege (Andre Deutsch, 95p) is a very well illustrated children's book. Young Jim knew he would never forget the day his father and the rest of the life-boat crew rowed out to a wreck for the last time before the...

BURNHAM.—On the 14th October the coxswain of the Life-boat saw the smack Neath Trader, of Newport, Mon., ashore off Burnham during a heavy gale from the W.N.W. at about 10 o'clock A.M. The vessel was fall of water, and there were three...

Caister, Norfolk. At 4.10 on the morning of the 26th of January, 1958, the Great Yarmouth coastguard told the coxswain that the motor vessel Fosdyke Trader of Hull was aground on Caister shoal 400 yards west-north-west of Caister Elbow buoy....

9 In Captain George Manby, the inventor of the line-throwing mortar, Kenneth VValthew has found an excellent subject for a lively and colourful biography (From Rock and Tempest, Geoffrey Bles, £1.90/38s.). Manby was one of those...

• Much in demand in recent years but soon out of print after its appearance in 1958, Cyril Jolly's book HenryBlogg ofCromer (George Harrap.

£1.90) has been reprinted with the usual...

Oliver Warner, the distinguished naval historian who was the author of The Life-boat Service, a history of the RNLI from 1824-1974, written to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Institution..