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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    ( near the fhore, of which there have been many inttances yth, An obfervatory is erettted at the Eaft tur¬ ret of the cattle, where a perfon is Rationed every morning at day-break, in the winter fea- fon, to watch the adjacent coaft, for vettels in dittrefs. 8th, Matters and commiflioners of vettels in diftrefs are requetted to make fuch lignals as are ufual among perfons in their unhappy fitua- tion. The additional accommodations, fupplied at this afylum, are “ itt. Rooms and beds for fhipwrecked mari¬ ners, who will be maintained in the cattle a week, or longer, according to circumftances ; and dur¬ ing the whole time provided with all manner of neceflaries, * The patent fignal trumpet (lately invented by Mr. Fitz¬ gerald), to which a piftolor piece of ordnance can be fcrewed, is faid to increafe found to fuch a pitch as to render the re¬ port of a common cartridge, fired through it, equal to that of a nine-pounder. Such an inftrument therefore may prove highly ufeful to mariners in difirefs. Repertory of Arts) Vol. XI. p. ioo. As might alfo the Telegraph, which is now fo much improved as to give lignals by night, as well as by day.