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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    I [ 54 ] beds, proper diet, and other neceffaries. For what avails it to have efcaped the dangers of the fea, if left to wander friendlefs and unknown, and at laft to periih on a ftrange coalt ? Therefore fuch an afylum, ever ready to open its friendly doors to diftreffed mariners of all na- tions, ought to be erected wherever the coaft is peculiarly dangerous, where difafters molt fre- quently happen, and where accommodations are raoft difficult to be obtained. It may not be improper to add that the expence of building and fupporting fuch afylums, though very conliderable, ought in no wife to be deemed an infuperable objection. This might be defrayed by a fmall county rate, that would be fcarcely felt by individuals, nay would be lighter than the dufl of the balance when put in competition with the important object of pre- ferving the lives of gallant feamen, and of ad- miniftering comfort to unfortunate perfons def- titute of every thing, and ready ty periih. ! An object indeed, whether' conlidered in a moral, a commercial, or a political view, cannot but be efteemed peculiarly interefting to the com- munity, and confequently intituled to the attention of the legiflature ; fince to Britifh feamen this maritime country is principally indebted not only for its commerce, but its protection. On whom can the Civic Crown be more pro- perly beftowed than on thofe active and humane individuals
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