FATAL CALL OF THE RUNNING TIDE - Lifeboat Rescues and Sea Dramas by Cockcroft, Barry - 1995

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1995. 198 pp. Blue boards lettered in gilt on the spine; illustrated with colour plates. Light wear at the corners of the dustjacket; price intact; no interior markings. The Chapters are: Prologue: A Wild Call and a Clear Call; Survivor; Capsize; Man Overboard; Those Infernal Ribble Banks - and the Lighter Side of Lifeboat Service; Hell and High Water; The Last Place in England; Triple Crew Copper; Voices Voices... I Heard Voices; The Captain and the Storm Petrel; Brush with Danger; Born to be Cox - and Coxswain Hornblower; The Daughters of Grace Darling; ...and a Child of Neptune; The Tarts of Dungeness; A Price to Pay; Nightmares in Dover; The Deadly Goodwins; Caister Men Never Turn Back and Never Take No for an Answer; The Greatest Lifeboatman of Them All; Dylan Thomas and the Buoy Boy; Snarling Mountains of Fury and Two Lads Ready to Die for a Pint; Across the Sea to Ireland and Deadly Dublin Bay; The Marathon Men and the Christmas Tragedy; Valencia and the Floating Battlefield; Reprimanded for Saving a Life; The Menace of Ailsa Craig; The Son of the Island Crofter; Oil Rigs and a Roving Machanic; and Hell's Mouth and the Return of the Devil; followed by an index.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. Book.