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‘It is impossible to assign to any one person the merit of inventing the Life-Boat’
Based on a 1910 Royal Society of Arts lecture, Sir John Cameron-Lamb’s small book The Life-boat and its Work was published in the following year, and sold for the now-laughable sum of one shilling. I promised the gentlemen who look after Southwold’s historic Alfred Corry I’d scan this book, and so here’s the first instalment!
To see the rest of this series:
The Life-boat and its Work, a history from 1911 – part I
The Life-boat and its Work, a history from 1911 – part II
The Life-boat and its Work, a history from 1911 – part III
