40 Great Britain Division IX. Life-boat Shed. 



353<i. BERNEY, GEORGE DUCKETT, Morton Hall, Norwich. A 

 Sheet of Illustrations of Captain Manby's Life-saving Apparatus. 



354. FORRESTT & SON, Norway Yard, Limehouse, and Britannia 

 Yard, Mill wall, London. (1) Full size Coast Life-boat. (2) Life-boat for conveyance of fish- 

 (3) Patent Life-raft. (4) Model of Steam Tng. (5) Model of Boat, with Improved Sailing 

 Gear. (6) Model of Fishing Boat for East and Scotch Coasts. (7) 9 ft. Fishing Dinghy. 

 (8) 10 ft. Fishing Dinghy. (9) 12 ft. Fishing Dinghy, with centre board. (10) Improved 

 Lifeboat for Steam Fish Carriers and other vessels. 



355. SEXTON, JOSEPH, 3 and 4 Great Winchester Street, London, E.G. 

 (1) Patent Buoyant Deck Seat, with Cushions, full size ; which will form a raft when fastened 

 together. (2) Buoyant Bathing Dress, easily applied to any shape of dress, and at small cost. 

 (3) Collection of Life Saving Appliances. 



355. SUGDEN, LIEUT. S. S., B.N., Woodford, Essex. Instantaneous 

 Connecting and Disconnecting Shackles. 



356. COPEMAN, E. S., Downham Market, Norfolk, and 4 Victoria 

 Street, Westminster, S.W. (1) Model of Eaft, on a platform two feet above main platform 

 with tanks 8 ft. 6 in. by 7 ft. 2 in. Water in tank. (2) Copeman's Patent Seat Raft. Two 

 Bpecimens of deck seats for saving life m case of accident on board passenger vessels. Those 

 seats placed together form a raft or life-boat capable of carrying ten or fifteen persons on 

 board, and are supplied with mast, sail, oars, water, and provisions. The buoyancy of each 

 seat is upwards of half a ton, and singly or together they will support fifty or sixty persons in 

 the water, with provisions and means of signalling. 



357. BEECHING BROTHERS, Ship and Boat Builders, Great 

 Yarmouth. Model of Lifeboat, with equipments. 



357. DAVIS, JOHN, 6 King's Terrace, Back of Walls, Southampton. 

 Cork Life Buoy, furnished with paddlers, by which it is propelled. 



358. ROPER, RICHARD, 143 Lewisham High Road, New Cross, S.E. 

 Awarded the First Prize (100 Guineas) at the Naval Exhibition, Lodon, 1882, as the best 

 means of Saving Life at Sea. (1) A Working Model, scale 1 in. to 1 foot, represents the mid- 

 ship section of a large ocean-going steamer or troopship, fitted with self-launching bridge life- 

 rafts, with fluted bottoms, built on the cellular principle. (2) A similar model with a 

 different method of launching. This raft is suitable for fish-carrying steamers. The top of 

 the deck-house is fitted with a self-floating raft. (3) A similar model f in. scale to 1 ft., with 

 different method of launching, showing how tops of charts, deck-houses, &c., can be fitted with 

 self-floating rafts. (4) Kaft fitted up for troopship for saving life, landing horses, guns, 

 cargo, &c. Scale in. to 1 ft. (5) Life raft, fitted with a raised cabin, suitable for emigrant 

 ship, showing the masts, sails, &c., complete. (6) Tubular raft, fitted complete, showing the 

 method of constructing them on the tubular principle. Scale in. to 1 ft. (7) Model of a 

 passenger steamer 4,060 tons, scale in. to 1 ft., fitted with three rafts, one in front of poop, 

 one in front of forecastle, and one as captain's bridge. Capable of saving the lives of the most 

 crowded passenger ships. (8) Model of the " Princess Alice," fitted with Roper's floating 

 rafts capable of carrying 960 persons. (9) Half-model of " Princess Alice," showing the 

 after part, after the collision with the " Bywell Castle," fitted with Roper's self-floating rafts ; 

 will be sunk in tank showing the action. (10) Models showing the different construction of 

 the life rafts. (11) Life Raft, showing it fitted complete, with sails, masts, rigging set, with 

 water-tight seats, containing water, provisions, signals, rockets, compass, charts, oars, &c., 

 and sitting accommodation for; 450. (12) Midship section of a steam or sailing ship, with 

 deck-house fitted with Roper's self-launching life-raft, fitted complete. Scale 1 in. to 1 ft. 

 With semicircular launching ways and telescopic extension. The whole of the above models 

 are unsinkable, and will be launched in a tank. 



359. ROSE, R., & CO., 72 LeadenhaU Street, London. (1) Patent Oil 

 Discharging Apparatus. (2) Patent Deck Seat for supporting 50 people. (3) Patent Fowl 

 Coop Seat. (4) Small Deck Seat for Yachts. (5) Sea Messenger, Life Buoy and Seat 

 Combined. (6) Life Belt Cushions and Beds combined. (7) Models of Various Life-Saving 



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MADAME TUSSAUD& SONS' 



EXHIBITION, 



Admission Is. Extra Booms, 6d. Open from 10 till 10. 



