An essay on the preservation of shipwrecked mariners, in answer to the prize-questions proposed by the Royal Humane Society : "1. What are the best means of preserving mariners from shipwreck?-2. Of keeping the vessel afloat?-3. Of giving assistance to the crew, when boats dare not venture out to their aid?" / by A. Fothergill, M.D. F.R.S. member of the Royal College of Physicians, Lond. honorary member of Medical and Phil. Societies of Lond. Edinb. Paris, Manchest. Philadel. &c.

  • Anthony Fothergill
Date:
1799
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Credit: An essay on the preservation of shipwrecked mariners, in answer to the prize-questions proposed by the Royal Humane Society : "1. What are the best means of preserving mariners from shipwreck?-2. Of keeping the vessel afloat?-3. Of giving assistance to the crew, when boats dare not venture out to their aid?" / by A. Fothergill, M.D. F.R.S. member of the Royal College of Physicians, Lond. honorary member of Medical and Phil. Societies of Lond. Edinb. Paris, Manchest. Philadel. &c. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    . [ * ] woe! among the crowd of fpectators on the beach, fee the aged parent, the tender wife, and the helplefs children of the diftreffed fufferers, bathed in tears, and, in the anguim of their fouls, pouring forth their unavailing cries and fupplications! at length exhaufted with ineffec- tual ftrugglihgs, the devoted victims in the ago- ny of defpair, are forced to yield to the all-con- quering element, and, while cafting their laft look on the more, are fuddenly overwhelmed in one common undiftinguifhed grave ! Now, this is no feigned picture of imaginary diftrefs, but the genuine recital of a mournful event, which, alas ( is too often realifed on the Britifh coafts! An affecYing inftance of this nature happened not long ago, in open day, and in the face of at leaft a hundred fpectators, to two veflels be- longing to Cardigan Bay, which, during a ftorm, were unfortunately wrecked near the coaft. One of them, being in a decayed ftate, funk within fifty yards of more, where the crew, being in- ftantly call on a fand bank, miraculoufly efcaped. But the miferable fufFerers in the other veffel, eleven in number, being unable to keep their hold, whilft immenfe billows broke over them, were warned off one by one, until only one man was left, who tenacioufly kept his feat for two hours after his unfortunate companions, when a prodigious
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