Papers of The National Institution for Preservation of Life from Shipwreck 1824-1852
The collection is a segment of the National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck's originating archive, consisting of 354 letters and documents (including some photocopies).
Includes several descriptions of shipwrecks around the British coast, recommendations of sailors for gallantry awards and receipts for these. Also comprises: petitions for the provision of lifeboats; and documents detailing the progress of lifeboat production, their costs and designs. Details of meetings to raise finances in the provinces are also included and there is correspondence dealing with the success of, and suggested alternatives to "Captain Manby's Apparatus" (for saving lives from shipwrecks), with a drawing of one such apparatus in use. Also comprises correspondence with James Beeching, the inventor of the self-righting lifeboat, and correspondence on the headed paper of the Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners Benevolent Society.
Related materials: see the Phillimore Collection (RMG ID: PHL/2/88A and PHL/5/13). There are also cuttings concerning lifeboats in RMG ID: WHI/129. Externally, note that the central repository for the RNLI collections is based at RNLI Support Centre in Poole, Dorset, along with their archive and library: https://rnli.org/about-us/our-history/archive-and-library
Includes several descriptions of shipwrecks around the British coast, recommendations of sailors for gallantry awards and receipts for these. Also comprises: petitions for the provision of lifeboats; and documents detailing the progress of lifeboat production, their costs and designs. Details of meetings to raise finances in the provinces are also included and there is correspondence dealing with the success of, and suggested alternatives to "Captain Manby's Apparatus" (for saving lives from shipwrecks), with a drawing of one such apparatus in use. Also comprises correspondence with James Beeching, the inventor of the self-righting lifeboat, and correspondence on the headed paper of the Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners Benevolent Society.
Related materials: see the Phillimore Collection (RMG ID: PHL/2/88A and PHL/5/13). There are also cuttings concerning lifeboats in RMG ID: WHI/129. Externally, note that the central repository for the RNLI collections is based at RNLI Support Centre in Poole, Dorset, along with their archive and library: https://rnli.org/about-us/our-history/archive-and-library
Object Details
| ID: | RNLI |
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| Type: | Manuscript |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Date made: | 1824-1852 |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
| Measurements: | 2 boxes (7 folders) |
| Parts: |
Papers of The National Institution for Preservation of Life from Shipwreck 1824-1852
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