Plan of an attempt for rendering assistance to shipwrecked mariners, preserving their lives, and the property of our merchants, when wreck occurs.

  • Mallison, W.H.
Date:
1807
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Credit: Plan of an attempt for rendering assistance to shipwrecked mariners, preserving their lives, and the property of our merchants, when wreck occurs. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    tution for distributing them among the fisher- men. pilots, and those most likely to witness the scenes of devastation that so frequently oc- cur on our coast, was presented to the Society of Arts and Sciences in the Adelphi; conceiv- ing, after every investigation and approbation of the principles of the Invention, and of the impossibility of the individual, when using it, being drowned, that the difficulties ever attend- ing a first attempt, however laudable the mo- tive, would, by their patronage, be consider- ably lessened. In consequence of the applica- tion, the Society appointed a Committee of twenty-five members and upwards, who wit- nessed the actual experiment in the Thames; and, on the ,15th of May, came to the follow- ing Resolution:— “ Resolved—It is the opinion of this Commit- tee, that the Society cannot enter into the Plan of Mr. Mallison, it being contrary to the na- ture of this Institution, however desirous they may be of bringing into general use any mode of preserving life; but the Committee having been convinced, by the experiment of Mr. Mal- lison, that his apparatus, called the Seaman's friend, is useful in preserving the lives of per- sons