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Heroes of the RNLI: The Storm Warriors

June 16, 2021Tyler RobinsonBook Reviews, BooksBritish Royal Navy, coast guard, ingo heidbrink, Maritime Disasters, Martyn Beardsley, RNLI

Reviewed by Ingo Heidbrink Martyn R. Beardsley’s new book Heroes of the RNLI: The Storm Warriors tells the stories of the men of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI), an institution that is not only one of the better-known maritime rescue services but also a national icon in the United Kingdom. From the 1820s up

Thetis Down: The Slow Death of A Submarine

January 25, 2021Sean BlandBook Reviews, BooksHMS Thetis, ingo heidbrink, Maritime Disasters, submarines

Reviewed by Ingo Heidbrink Maritime disasters are regularly topics catching the attention of maritime interested readers, authors, the media, historians and so on. The loss of HMS Thetis in 1939 was no exception to this rule. It had substantial coverage by the media in the immediate aftermath of the tragic event as well as a

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Heroes of the RNLI: The Storm Warriors

Thetis Down: The Slow Death of A Submarine

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