8207d. (lot 2 books) Chenery, Richard L. III., OLD COAST GUARD STATIONSVOLUME I – VIRGINIA:POPES ISLAND TO FALSE CAPE. 1998. 94p. Soft wraps. (and) Chenery, Richard L. III., OLD COAST GUARD STATIONS VOLUME II – NORTH CAROLINA. 2000.
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8207d. (lot 2 books) Chenery, Richard L. III., OLD COAST GUARD STATIONSVOLUME I – VIRGINIA:POPES ISLAND TO FALSE CAPE. 1998. 94p. Soft wraps. (and) Chenery, Richard L. III., OLD COAST GUARD STATIONS VOLUME II – NORTH CAROLINA. 2000.
8207d. (lot 2 books) Chenery, Richard L. III., OLD COAST GUARD STATIONSVOLUME I – VIRGINIA:POPES ISLAND TO FALSE CAPE. 1998. 94p. Soft wraps. (and) Chenery, Richard L. III., OLD COAST GUARD STATIONS VOLUME II – NORTH CAROLINA. 2000. 124p. Soft wraps. Both signed by the author and includes tipped in signed letter by the author to an interested patron. Each with 70 or 113 photographs and illustrations, and 2 maps of North Carolina lifeboat station locations, Mr. Chenery provides wonderful details about the little known early years of the Coast Guard. Included are recollections of veteran surfmen, surfmen’s uniform and insignia, beach apparatus drills, covers the Early Coast Period from 1915 to early 1960’s, details surfboats, motor lifeboats and DUKWs, pulling boat drills and races, WW II beach patrols, Life-Saving Branch, and much more…Mr. Chenery has been researching the early Coast Guard for a number of years and has a particularly fine knowledge of early uniforms and insignia, as well as stations and equipment. In Volume I he covers the lifeboat stations in Virginia in wonderful detail, with excellent photos and illustrations, many never before published. In this second in the series, Mr. Chenery provides covers all 29 of the old lifeboat stations along this section of coastline. Included are wonderful details about the little known early years of the Coast Guard along the North Carolina coast. Included are recollections of veteran surfmen, surfmen’s uniform and insignia, beach apparatus drills, covers the Early Coast Period from 1915 to the 1950’s, details surfboats, motor lifeboats and DUKWs, award of gold and silver lifesaving medals, Coast Guard Day surfboat races, heroic rescues, the last breeches buoy rescue in North Carolina, WW II beach patrols, Life-Saving Branch, and much more. Mr. Chenery covers the lifeboat stations in Virginia and North Carolina in wonderful detail, with excellent photos and illustrations, many never before published. 8 ½” x 11”. A MUST for your library ! Now out of print and very difficult to find. Set of 2 signed by Mr Chenery. (VG++). $114.