Lifebelt
Date
1803
Creator
Wilson Lowry (1762 - 1824, British) , Engraver
Object type
Library reference
9183
Material
Dimensions
height (print): 210mm
width (print): 128mm
width (print): 128mm
Subject
Description
Scheme for a lifebelt, with attachments.
The accompanying article states that: ‘It would be a desirable appendage to the life-boat in cases when the whole crew could not be taken in at once. Any number of persons furnished with these might be floated ashore attached to the boat with small cords. In cases of shipwreck, where no life-boats are at hand, doubtless many lives might be saved by the marine spencer…’.
Plate 4, illustrating the paper: ‘On the Marine Spencer, invented by Knight Spencer, Esq.’, The Philosophical Magazine…[edited] by Alexander Tilloch, v.16, (1803) pp.272-273.
Inscribed above: ‘Philo. Mag. Vol.XVI. Pl.IV’. Inscribed below: ‘MARINE SPENCER, for the preservation of Lives in cases of Shipwreck or other Accidents at Sea. Pl.62.’.
Wilson Lowry (1762-1824), British engraver and geologist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1812.
The accompanying article states that: ‘It would be a desirable appendage to the life-boat in cases when the whole crew could not be taken in at once. Any number of persons furnished with these might be floated ashore attached to the boat with small cords. In cases of shipwreck, where no life-boats are at hand, doubtless many lives might be saved by the marine spencer…’.
Plate 4, illustrating the paper: ‘On the Marine Spencer, invented by Knight Spencer, Esq.’, The Philosophical Magazine…[edited] by Alexander Tilloch, v.16, (1803) pp.272-273.
Inscribed above: ‘Philo. Mag. Vol.XVI. Pl.IV’. Inscribed below: ‘MARINE SPENCER, for the preservation of Lives in cases of Shipwreck or other Accidents at Sea. Pl.62.’.
Wilson Lowry (1762-1824), British engraver and geologist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1812.
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