Horatio Clare

Saviours of souls: the heroism of lifeboat crews

Helen Doe’s moving history of the RNLI celebrates the volunteers who, over the centuries, have risked their own lives for those in peril on the sea

A Whitby lifeboat capsizes in a storm in which 12 of the crew lost their lives, February 1861. [Sepia Times/Universal Images Group via Getty Images]
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  • One Crew: The RNLI’s Official 200-Year History

    Helen Doe

    Amberley Publishing, pp. 305, £22

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