gandalf1202: Joseph Mallord William Turner – Life-Boat and…
The Manby apparatus was a lifesaving device consisting of a rope fired from a mortar. Captain George Manby invented it after a shipwreck in 1807 at Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society in the year that this work was exhibited.
[Victoria & Albert Museum, London – Oil on canvas, 91.4 x 122 cm]
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