A Night at the Frost Fair

Another book I'm going to read for LBB12 (details here). 

I also read 'The Lifeboat That Went By Land' written and illustrated by Theresa Tomlinson a couple of nights ago, it was quite sweet. It was based on the following real-life events:

The Visitor (1881)
The brig Visitor foundered in the bay of Robin Hood's Bay in November 1881, and after the hold was flooded with 5 feet of water, the crew abandoned ship into their lifeboat. The Robin Hood's Bay RNLI lifeboat station had been closed in 1855, and the unofficial lifeboat in the village was deemed "unseaworthy" and so a telegraph was sent to launch the Whitby Lifeboat. The seas were too rough to launch from Whitby and row around the coastline, so a decision was made to haul Robert Whitworth the 6 miles overland to Robin Hood's Bay through blizzards and snow drifts, some as deep as 7 feet. This took two hours to achieve using the combined strength of 18 horses and 200 men. When the lifeboat and crew arrived, they launched the boat and spent 90 minutes in effecting a rescue of the people still stranded at sea. All survived and a commemorative plaque now memorialises the rescue in the village of Robin Hood's Bay.

The events of The Visitor prompted the RNLI to re-open the lifeboat station at Robin Hoods Bay (until 1931).

Taken from Wikipedia