Report to which is added, a list of the existing life-boat stations [&c.]. |
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amidships ballast beach boat of water boat-house Boatbuilder bottom built buoyancy is obtained capacity for holding Coast Guard Coast Guard stations Committee copper fastened cork cork fender COSTAIN Coxswain crew cubic feet cubic ft delivering-valves depth double banked Draft of water Effective extra buoyancy Eight Coast foot fore and aft freeing the boat gear gutta percha Hartlepool head and stern heavy sea holding water Hoylake iron keel keel Length extreme life-boat Liverpool Liverpool Bay Manilla means of freeing mortar National Shipwreck Institution Northumberland Padstow pins and grummets Point of Ayr provision for righting raised air-cases rake of stem raking stem righting the boat Rockets recommended sail saved securing a warp sheer of gunwale shore South Holland South Shields Southwold steered stem and stern stem and stern-post stern sheets stranded vessel Sunderland sweep-oar thwarts timber heads tons tubes Tynemouth upset water-ballast Weight of boat Whitby Yarmouth
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Page 12 - Л question may arise whether it is better that the boat should free herself by tubes through the bottom, or by scuppers in the sides, as shown in several of the models ; the former is the more direct and quickest action, but the tubes are liable to be choked in the possible case of a boat grounding on an outlying sand-bank, or on the bar of a river harbour ; it will be better, therefore, to be provided with both to meet such an accident. The tubes and scuppers might be closed by self-acting valves...
Page 13 - Cfterit paribni, the less is her stability ; and by the separation of these two centres, a condition of instability will ensue, the effect of which will be, that with the slightest motion, the boat will reverse her position, or right herself. To determine the necessary extent of separation of these centres in each case involves careful calculation. The best mode of applying this principle will readily occur to most boat-builders. The objections to the raised aircases at each end are the wind they...
Page 9 - As before mentioned, the Committee have reason to believe that cork may be used entirely under the flat or "floor of the boat, so as to reduce the internal capacity, and enable the boat to free herself of water. The only doubt is as to its weight ; but it appears that cork varies considerably in weight as well as in price, the commonest description of cork, such as used by fishermen as floats for their in-shore nets, does not exceed 12 Ibs. weight per cubic foot, and costs about 12s.
Page 73 - If a wreck occurs at some distance from the station, so as to require the boat to be transported along the coast, the Coxswain is to send to procure sufficient horses (which by the Wreck and Salvage Act, any magistrate, constable, or revenue officer, may demand the use of), attach them to the carriage, and lose no time in making the best of his way with the crew to the scene of wreck.
Page 13 - If air-cases be med in the extremes to obtain the buoyancy, a thin layer of cork on the top will afford great protection to them, and better footing for the crew when necessity requires them to stand on them. 8. As to ballast -.— If the requisite stability, and righting power, can be obtained without ballast, it is very desirable to avoid the incumbrance it causes, in case of having to transport a boat along shore. In this respect water-ballast has a great advantage, as it is not taken in until...
Page 6 - As regards dimensions :— In point of length life-boats may be conveniently divided into three classes -from 20 to 25 feet, from 25 to 30 feet, and from 30 to 36 feet— which last may be considered the maximum, and a length rarely required. The smallersized boat is handy on those parts of the coast...
Page 7 - ... to 30 feet, and from 30 to 36 feet : which last may be considered the maximum, and a length rarely required. The smaller-sized boat is handy on those parts of the coast where it is difficult to find a crew — a difficulty that would be found to extend to a great part of the shores of this kingdom. The medium, or 30-feet boat, to pull ten oars double banked, is probably the best adapted for the general purposes of a life-boat, at all places where a sufficient crew can be readily found to man...
Page 7 - ... feet amidships, and a depth not exceeding 6 feet might be taken at the stem and stern-posts. The weight suitable to a life-boat does not seem to have received much consideration from our builders, to judge from the difference in existing boats. Those at Holy Island, at Yarmouth, and Southwold, as before mentioned with their gear, weigh about five tons, whereas many of the models sent in are said to weigh less than half a ton. The mean between these two extremes will be near the truth. For however...