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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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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    With a short eight-inch mortar, the weight of which and bed was supposed to be about seven hun¬ dred; the angles of elevation uncertain. Yards of Two Inch Patent Sun- Ounces of Powder. Yards of deep Sea Line. derland Rope, capable of hauling the largest Boat from a Beach. 32 - - - - 439 32 - - - - 479 32 - - - - - 336 Report of Experiments made at Lowestoft before the Suffolk Humane Society, on the 28th of August, 1811, on the efficacy of giving immediate relief. It was unanimously resolved—That the experi¬ ments of Captain Manby with the light mortar are perfectly satisfactory, as they prove an easy method of effecting a communication between the beach and a vessel wrecked on a lee-shore. That Captain Manby’s new apparatus for accomplishing this most important object, has many peculiar advantages. Its lightness affords an ease of conveyance to places inac¬ cessible to an heavy ordnance, and a power of applying relief in some situations, where the former mortar would be useless. Yet the Suffolk Humane Society by no means recommend the adoption of the present plan, by rejecting the former; but warmly urges