Picture No | 10216974 |
Date | 1886 |
Description | Board of Trade Rocket Apparatus for Saving Lives from Shipwr |
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Board of Trade equipment for use to help shipwrecked sailors, 1886. The items are (from left to right, top to bottom) a whip-block and tally-board; a hawser-cutter; a heaving-cane and line; a rocket machine; a fuse-box; a rocket; whip, hawser and breeches-buoy; a light; Board of Trade wagon; a cliff ladder in use; a triangle; a rocket-line box; a portfire; the rocket-line box from above; an anchor; a cliff-helmet.
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Source | The Illustrated London News. 1886. page 621 |
Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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