11155. Carlson, Commander Arnold E. USCG. Captain Joshua James — Lifesaver Nonpareil. United States Naval Institute Proceedings. August 1959.
Welcome to Kenrick A. Claflin & Son
Featured on our web site and in our monthly web catalogues are new and out-of-print books, documents, post cards, photographs, maps and charts, engravings, lithographs, uniforms and insignia, tools, lamps, lens apparatus, equipment and apparatus and much more relating to these heroic services.
We now issue most of our catalogues on line rather than by mail. This allows us to issue more catalogues and feature more items, with better photos and descriptions. Let us know your email address and we will email you monthly as our catalogues are posted.
Type in your search word. After hitting Enter you will automatically be brought back to this page. Scroll down to this spot to see the results of search. Pages containing your search word will be listed. You will be allowed to click on the pages found. When on each page, Windows Explorer will allow you to use Ctrl + F to bring up a search box for that page. Type in your search word again and hit “Enter”. You will be taken to that item.
11155. Carlson, Commander Arnold E. USCG. Captain Joshua James — Lifesaver Nonpareil. United States Naval Institute Proceedings. August 1959.
11155. Carlson, Commander Arnold E. USCG. Captain Joshua James — Lifesaver Nonpareil. United States Naval Institute Proceedings. August 1959. 7p. Joshua James (1826-1902) is to this day still acknowledged to the most distinguished seafaring lifesaver in the United States. Capt. James served in the lifeboats of the Massachusetts Humane Society from 1842 and later as Keeper of the Point Allerton Life-Saving Service station at Stoney Beach until his death in 1902. According to Sumner I. Kimball, General Superintendent of the Life-Saving Service, “Joshua James was probably the best-known life-saver in the world….his sixty years of rescue work gave him a longer term of service and a more diversified experience in battling with the sea than any of his contemporaries. In this regard he might be called the greatest among them.” Some of his sixty years of rescues and the medals that he and his crews earned are chronicled in this scarce work. Includes photographs. Full issue – this 164 page magazine also contains comment and discussion, book reviews, professional notes, USNI publications in 1959 and other interesting items including a lengthy article on the San Francisco Maritime Museum, advertisements carried which show various items purchased and used by the Navy, and more. Clean, tight. (VG). $24.