A Lecture, Or Essay On the most efficacious means of Preserving The Lives Of Shipwrecked Sailors And The Shipwreck
Forfatter: George William Manby
År: 1813
Forlag: William Clowes
Sted: London
Sider: 39
UDK: 627.9
Delivered at Brighton, for the benefit of the Sussex County Hospital, on the 23rd of October, 1813
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and in this method, termed chain-faking.
As all these methods of laying the rope occupy time to place it
with the care necessary; and as it has repeatedly happened that
vessels, very soon after grounding, have gone to pieces, and all hands
perished, it was necessary to produce a method of arranging the rope,
so that it could be immediately projected as soon as it arrived at the
spot. None proves so effectual as a rope brought ready laid in a
gasket,
and that none is so simple, portable, of such small expense, and
so effectual, the testimony of repeated practice has confirmed. One
or more ropes may be laid on the same basket over each other.
As the need of assistance in winter is so much more likely to be
required in the night than day, from its greater length at that season,
and supposing1 the first attempt to throw the rope from the basket over
the vessel should fail, difficulties might occur, from the want of light