Author: HIGGINS David:
Title: The Beachmen - the Story of the Salvagers of the East Anglian Coast.
Description: Terence Dalton. 1987. (10430) Hardback. 270 pages. B.w. illustrations. Near fine in blue boards with gilt lettering to spine, in a near fine unclipped d.w. No markings or inscriptions. The beachmen are perhaps best remembered as the men who manned the Norfolk and Suffolk lifeboats and were justly regarded as heroes; but in their salvage operations the hard bargains they drove when a ship was in difficulties often earned them the contrasting description of "longshore sharks" and "pirates".

Keywords: Maritime. Norfolk Suffolk coast.