An essay on the preservation of shipwrecked persons : With a descriptive account of the apparatus, and the manner of applying it / [George William Manby].

  • Manby, George William, 1765-1854
Date:
1812
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: An essay on the preservation of shipwrecked persons : With a descriptive account of the apparatus, and the manner of applying it / [George William Manby]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    cable sent to the distressed vessel; for this purpose the following was constructed. To exhibit the difficulties, in certain cases, attend¬ ing the getting a piece of heavy ordnance to the place required, and to show the importance of light ones in particular service, I shall annex the following interest¬ ing narrative, forwarded to me by a very active and laudable member of the Suffolk Humane Society; and an extract from experiments made at Woolwich, be¬ fore a Committee of Colonels and Field Officers of the Royal Regiment of Artillery.