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Lifesaving - Equipment and supplies

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Lifesaving
Equipment and supplies
Lifesaving
Survival and emergency equipment

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Works from the collections

5 works

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    Die individuellen Rettungsmittel / Hartmut Goethe, Christa Laban.

    Goethe, H. | Date: 1988
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    Survival at sea : the development, operation, and design of inflatable marine lifesaving equipment / by G.W.R. Nicholl.

    Nicholl, G. W. R. (George William Robert), 1907- | Date: [1960]
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    An address to the British public : with suggestions for the recovering property from sunken vessels; also, for the means for rescuing the lives of sailors from stranded vessels; and for the prevention of shipwreck; likewise, on the extinction and prevention of destructive fires; and for rescuing persons from houses enveloped in flames: and for saving from drowning persons who break through the ice. With a description and representation of apparatus used for those purposes, and instructions for their application / By G.W. Manby.

    Manby, George William, 1765-1854. | Date: 1838
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    Traité de la construction théorique et pratique du scaphandre ou du bateau de l'homme ... approuvé par l'Academie Royale des Sciences / par M. de la Chapelle.

    La Chapelle, M. de, approximately 1710-approximately 1792. | Date: 1775
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    Our seamen : an appeal / by Samuel Plimsoll.

    Plimsoll, Samuel, 1824-1898. | Date: 1873

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