Life-Boat, Design and development

Fry, E.C.: 1975 London, hardcover with dustjacket 128 pages. 28 black and white photographs of representative classes of life-boats, 33 line drawings. A record of life-boat development in Britain spanning nearly 200 years; salient features of 33 different classes of life-boats are shown in 151 specially prepared scale drawings, together with sail plans of early boats, launching-carriage details, and a diagrammatic explanation of R.A.Oakleys method of self-righting. ISBN 0715367935 In very good condition