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mortar
A 3-pounder Manby mortar for getting a line on board a vessel in distress. Includes shot and leather becket. Inscribed 'G.W. Manby Capt FRS Inventor'. Manufactured by S.V. Moore Yarmouth'. Manby's apparatus was first successfully used in 1808, so this is a later piece since he was made a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1831.
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Object Details
| ID: | EQA0085.1 |
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| Type: | mortar |
| Display location: | Display - Sea Things Gallery |
| Creator: | Manby, George William; Moore, S. V. |
| Date made: | After 1831 |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
| Measurements: | Overall: 155 mm x 205 mm x 205 mm |
| Parts: |
line throwing frame
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