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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appears a dreadful alternative, but its success has been confirmed in
saving upwards of fifty men and several women.
The other methods of bringing’ persons to shore, all of which have
succeeded after communication has been effected, are by a cot? for
timid females, children, sick, wounded, or infirm. The whole of the
bottom of the cot is cut out, and replaced with strong netting, to
prevent the water from collecting in it; for, when travelling back-
wards and forwards, it might endanger the lives by drowning, and, by
aciding much weight, would retard or destroy its operation.
The use of a hammock stuffed with cork is for protecting persons
from injury when dashed among rocks or upon stony beaches.
The girdle is intended for persons on board, who, from fear or agi-
tation, are deprived of confidence of being brought to the shore in
safety by a clove hatch. It is filled with cork parings, in the form here
represented, and is found effectually to prevent the wearer from all
danger or possibility of drowning.
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