History of the Tees Pilots

170pp, monochrome illustrations throughout. In laminated card covers, illustrated (covers have very gentle edge wear, reading crease). Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Published to commemorate the centenary of the foundation of an Independent Pilotage Service on the River Tees, this book tells something of the difficulties and arduous conditions that pilots had to endure as part of the industrial development along the banks of the Tees, and how their task of providing safe and reliable navigation into the port was discharged, contributing to the prosperity of the area to an extent previously unrecognised.