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below moving to windward with the roll. This destroyed the stability and 
overcame the buoyancy, as it had before done in so many trials of Beech- 
ing’s boats. The principle of the latter is now condemned by the alteration 
of nearly all the boats he has built for the Duke of Northumberland, Rams- 
gate, and the “ Shipwrecked Fishermen’s Society,” who ordered this boat 
for the Rhyl station in preference to accepting my offer to place at their 
disposal my Fishermen’s Life-boat. 
SHIPS’ LIFE-BOAT. 
The magnitude of our mercantile marine, the great increase in the size of 
our ships, the number of steamers, and our numerous sea-going population, 
make the exhibition of an improved construction of “ ships’ life-boat” a great. 
desideratum. Following in the steps of my respected friend, the late George 
Henderson's Ships’ Life-boat.— Scale, 2ths of an inch. 
Palmer, Esq., I have designed a plan and specification of a ship’s life-boat, 
with a view to apply the properties of a life-boat to the ships’ boats in ordi- 
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