Three very scarce 19th Century Great Yarmouth seafaring/maritime/maritime disaster related titles, comprising: 'Description of Beeching's Northumberland Prize Life Boat, Designed and Built by Beeching and Sons, Boat-Builders, &c., Great Yarmouth.', Yarmouth, L.A. Meall, 1852, lithograph frontis depicting Beeching life boats sailing and rowing in roaring sea, 18pp, old cloth, original blue printed wraps bound in, very scarce, no copies on Copac/Jisc, 1 copy only on Worldcat located in Brown University Library, Providence R.I., USA; "A Southtown Resident": 'Yarmouth Sands, A Descriptive and Tragic Poem; The Banks of the Yare, and Other Subjects in Verse.', Yarmouth, for the author by B. Gooch & Son, 1852, 1st edition, iv,80,iipp, preface states "The principle subject in the miscellany now respectfully offered to the public, was suggested by a catastrophe which some years since, occurred off the Yarmouth shore, and which is yet generally, and painfully, remembered...", original blindstamped cloth gilt, all edges gilt, no copies on copac or worldcat; Rev. Henry MacKenzie: 'Three Ballads: The Beachman's Tale, The Loss of the "Phoenix" Yawl, and the East-Anglian Maiden', Yarmouth, W.D. Burton, 1860, signed by author to dedication page, The Beachman's Tale ballad referring to the miraculous escape from shipwreck of Samuel Brock, Yarmouth beachman, in 1835, manuscript note by author at beginning stating "..verse from the Story of Brock, previously published", 21pp, some pencil annotations to text, old cloth gilt, scarce; plus 'The Norfolk Sea Floods February, 1938', reprinted from the 'Transactions of the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society', vol.14 pt.4 1938, 334-390pp booklet, orig. printed wraps (4)
