Lifeboat
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: October 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780813922218
Subjects: Maritime History; True stories of endurance & survival; Modern - General; Lifeboats; History; Transportation; History: World; Shipwrecks; Ships & Shipbuilding - History; Ships & Shipbuilding - Shipwrecks; Landscape; Military - Naval
First sentence: ALL DAY THE GALE HAS WORSENED, THE WIND GROWING STRONGER hour by hour after a bleak and still dawn, curling in upon itself in a jarring, ceaseless, implacable shuddering.