The Life -Boat. Journal
THE LIFE -BOAT. JOURNAL OF THE National %ffe*Soat Jnstitution, (ISSUED QTTABTEELY.) PMOK 3d. VOL. XYIL—No. 198.] IST NOVEMBER, 1900. [WITH WRECK CHART. SKETCH OF THE PEOGEESS MADE IN THE CONSTEUCTION OF COAST LIFE-BOATS. 1785-1900. No. 3. IN the last number of the Life-boat Norfolk and Suffolk Life-boats, came into Journal (August, 1900) this sketch was vogue in the early forties, and continues taken up to 1840, when the Liverpool to the present time. type of Life-boat came into use, and the The following describes the manner in improvements in that type were traced up which the above two competitors arranged to the present date. for carrying water-ballast in their Life- About December, 1841, there was a boats :— competition for Life-boat models held at Mr. George Farrow's model represented South Shields. As not much reference a North Country type Life-boat of the is to be found to this "competition," usual paddle-box boat form, 30 feet long it is probably right to assume that it by 10 feet beam, and 3£ feet depth, and was almost confined to the builders and for ballast she had a tank amidships- designers of the North Country type. 15 inches deep, 14 feet long, extending George Farrow, boatbuilder, South across the boat, capable of holding 3 tons Shields, and William Greener, of- Aston of water. This tank was divided by New Town, Birmingham, both appear to transverse partitions to prevent the water have sent models to this competition, ranging in a seaway, with limber holes and also to that for the Northumberland near the keel to keep up the communi- prize in 1850, showing, in each instance, cation, and others near the platform, in arrangements for carrying water-ballast case of the boat upsetting.
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