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Artist J.M.W. Turner, RA. The Engravings. Perhaps the most
famous English
Romantic landscape artist. Turner products many engravings and was very
hands-on in there progress to printings.
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Stranded Vessel off Yarmouth
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| This picture is described in the Catalogue of the Royal Academy for
1831 as “Lifeboat and Manby apparatus going off to a stranded Vessel
making signals (blue lights) of distress;” and in the Catalogue of the
Fine-Art Collection, at South Kensington, as “Vessel in distress, off
Yarmouth.—A lifeboat is going off to a stranded vessel, which is seen on
the right of the picture, making blue-light signals of distress. Two of
the females whose fathers or husbands man the boat eagerly watch it from
the sands. their position indicating the long recession of the waves,
which are boiling and tumbling cr under the influence of the storm.” The
vessel in distress appears in our engraving on the left, and the signals
are rather more like rockets than what are now termed blue lights. It
shows Turner’s interest in marine matters and his sympathy with
shipwrecked seamen, that he should include not only the lifeboat, but
the at that time little-known Manby apparatus, by which, and its
successor the rocket apparatus, apparatus, many thousand lives have been
saved on our shores. The apparatus of Captain Manby consisted of a
mortar from which round or conical shot were fired over the wreck; to
the shot was attached a line by which those on board hauled off from
shore a double line passed through a pulley. This pulley was set up to
the mast. and the endless or double line could then be worked by- the
men on shore, who hauled off a life-buoy into which a man could get, and
then hauled it and the man back to the shore. The essential features of
this apparatus are preserved, but a rocket is used instead of the mortar
to fire the line over the ship. |
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