A LIST OF THE EXISTING LIFE-BOAT, ROCKET, AND MORTAR STATIONS,

AND AN ABSTRACT OF THE WRECKS WHICH OCCURRED ON THE SHORES
OF THE BRITISH ISLES IN 1850.

WITH APPENDIX, MAPS, AND PLANS.

LONDON:

PRINTED BY W. CLOWES & SONS, STAMFORD STREET AND CHARING CROSS.

1851.

Catalogue of all the models, plans,. &c., received, with their chief dimensions.
Report on the Life-boat Establishment of the Port of Liverpool in 1843 and 1851.
Documents relative to the Shields life-boats

Captain Jerningham, R.N., on experiments with MANBY's mortar, lines, &c.

Copy of notice to boat-builders, &c., issued in October, 1850

Abstract of wrecks for the year 1850 .

List of the existing life-boat, rocket, and mortar stations around the coasts of the British Isles,
with some account of their state and condition

Life-boat Regulations of the National Shipwreck Institution.

ILLUSTRATIONS.

Wreck Chart of the coast of Northumberland

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I. Plan and sections of a life-boat by JAMES BEECHING, of Great Yarmouth.
II. Plan and sections of a life-boat by HARRY HINKS, Appledore, Devon.
III. Plan and sections of a life-boat by JAMES and EDWARD PELLEW PLENTY,
of Newbury, Berks.

IV. Plan and sections of a life-boat by WILLIAM TEASDEL, Great Yarmouth.
V. Plan and sections of a life-boat by Messrs. HARVEY & SON, Halifax, near
Ipswich.

VI. Plan and sections of a life-boat by GEORGE FARROW, South Shields.

VII. Plan and sections of a life-boat by GEORGE PALMER, Esq., Nazing Park,
Essex.

VIII. Plan and sections of a life-boat by WILLIAM VAN HOUTEN, Rotterdam, At the end.
President of the South Holland Shipwreck Institution.

IX. Plan and sections of a life-boat by Messrs. THOMAS and J. WHITE, Cowes,

Isle of Wight.

X. Plan and sections of a life-boat by Lieut. B. SHARPE, R.N.

XI. Plan and sections of a life-boat by Commodore Lord JOHN HAY, C.B.,
Superintendent of H.M.'s Dockyard at Devonport.

XII. Plan and sections of a life-boat by THOMAS COSTAIN, of Liverpool.

XIII. Plan and sections of a life-boat by JAMES PEAKE, Esq., Assistant-Master

Shipwright in H.M.'s Dockyard at Woolwich.