Life-Saving Along the Coast 1848-1871
Subtitle: Its New Jersey Beginnings and How it Expanded
By: by Robert F. Bennett. U.S. Coast Guard, Retired
Publisher: The Ocean County Historical Society
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Toms River, New Jersey
Language: eng
Subjects: United States; Lifesaving; Appropriations and expenditures; United States. Life-Saving Service; History
Notes: Includes reprint of Bennett's "Surfboats, rockets and carronades" (1976) and a compilation of official correspondence and documents relating to the funding of early life-saving stations entitled "An appropriation of a very unusual kind - a documentary history of the origins of the U.S. Life-Saving Service."

Includes bibliographical references.