An essay on the preservation of shipwrecked mariners : in answer to the prize-questions proposed by the Royal Humane Society / [A. Fothergill].

  • Fothergill, A. (Anthony), 1732?-1813
Date:
1800
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Credit: An essay on the preservation of shipwrecked mariners : in answer to the prize-questions proposed by the Royal Humane Society / [A. Fothergill]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    t S« ] of thofe who have to mourn their relatives and friends, torn from them by the fury of the tem¬ ped:. For this reafon, I am anxious to lay before you, as a diftinguifhed member of the Humane Society, the following fhort account of a very laudable plan that ought to be more generally known,” Humane Injlitution at Bamborough CaJUe for the prefervaiion of lives and property from Shipwreck „ Signals from the Cajlle. 1 ft, “ A great gun, a nine-pounder, placed at the bottom of the tower, to be fired in cafe any vefifel be obferved in diftrefs; and the fignal to be varied according to circumftances, in order that the Cuftom-houfe officers may haften to give all poffibje alfiftance, as well as to prevent the wreck from being plundered. ad, In every great ftorm, two men on horfe- back are fent from the caftle, to patrole along the coaft from fun-fet to fun-rife, that, in cafe of an accident, one may remain by the vefiTel, and the other return to alarm the caftle. Whoever brings the firft notice of the diftrefs is entitled to a pre- . mium^