An Essay on the Preservation of Shipwrecked Persons: With a Descriptive Account of the Apparatus and the Manner of Applying itLongman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, & Brown, 1812 - 92 páginas |
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Página 26 - Sir, — I have the pleasure to acquaint you, for the information of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, that at nine o'clock this morning I got sight of the Dutch fleet.
Página 62 - ... the crew are not able to make their situation known by luminous signals; secondly, to produce a method of laying the mortar for the object with as much accuracy as in the light ; thirdly, to render the flight of the rope perfectly distinguishable to those who project it and to the crew on board of the vessel, so that they cannot fail of seeing on what part of the rigging it lodges, and consequently have no difficulty in securing it. To attain the first object a hollow ball was made to the size...
Página 44 - ... yards. It might also, from the simplicity of its structure, be extremely useful in escaping from a house on fire. By making one end fast to the leg of a bed or a table, the person would come down from the window in safety, and with much less difficulty, and quicker than with the common rope ladder, which is heavier and more unwieldy. It...
Página 24 - ... it too frequently occurs), they totally lose the use of their limbs and are rendered incapable of assisting themselves in the slightest degree, the advantages of this shot, are, that, on its being projected over the vessel and the people of the shore hauling it in, it firmly secures itself on some part of the wreck or rigging, by which a boat can be hauled to the relief of the distressed objects, and by the...
Página vi - February, 1807, when hi» majesty's gun-brig, Snipe, was driven on shore near the Haven's mouth at Yarmouth, first made an impression on my mind, which has never been effaced. At the close of that melancholy scene, after several hours of fruitless attempt to save the crew, upwards of sixty persons were lost, though not more than fifty yards from the shore, and this wholly owing to the impossibility of conveying a rope to their assistance, At that crisis a ray of hope beamed upon Bfte, and I resolved...
Página 25 - We, the crew of the brig, Nancy, of Sunderland, do hereby certify, that we were on board the said vessel, when she was stranded on the beach of Yarmouth, on Friday morning the 15th of December 1809, and compelled to secure ourselves in the rigging, to prevent being swept away, the sea running so high over the vessel. And we do further declare and certify, that Captain Manby...
Página 32 - ... and two rounds of ammunition, the whole weighing 62 pounds, strapped on the fore part of the saddle. The person thus equipped is supposed to be enabled to travel with expedition to the aid of ships in danger of being wrecked on parts of the...
Página 33 - ... parts of the coast intermediate to the mortar stations; and with this small apparatus, the log line is to be projected over the vessel in distress, from which a rope should be attached to it to haul the crew on shore. Captain Manby caused the howitzer to be dismounted from the horse, and in a few minutes fired it, when the shot was thrown, with the line attached, to the distance of 143 yards.
Página 63 - ... period of the light a stand with two upright sticks (Fig. 7, Plate XLVIII), painted white to render them more discernible in the dark, was ready at hand and pointed in a direct line to the vessel. A shell affixed to the rope, having four holes in it to receive a like number of fuses...
Página 18 - ... over the first mode of faking, they being laid in a much less space of time. 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; and none proved so effectual as when brought ready laid in a basket.