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Appliances. (8) Balch's Automatic Life Raft. (9) Hand Rocket Apparatus. (10) Balch's 

 Life Buoy and Signal. (11) Balch's Day and Night Signals. (12) Balch's Electric Sounding 

 Apparatus. (13) Fishermen's Life-jacket Jersey. (14) Method of Breaking Force of Sea, 

 &c., to be shown in competition for special prizes. (15) Small Patent Apparatus for dis- 

 charging oil; for use in ships' boats and lifeboats. (16) Ditto, larger size, for sailing vessels. 

 (17) Ditto, for steam ships. (18) Floating Shell, with hose for forcing oil from on board ship. 

 (19) Shell filled with oil and cork. (20) Three Paintings illustrating use of oil on water. 

 (21) Drawings illustrating the communication between Fleets and Lightships. 



35Qa. W. BALCH, 6 Haddington Terrace, Greenwich. Automatic Life 

 Raft, Life Buoy and Signals Apparatus for firing distress signals and collision lights ; also 

 apparatus for sounding by electricity. 



361. HILL & CLARK, 6 Westminster Chambers, London, S.W. Life- 

 saving Apparatus consisting of models of life and other boats fitted with methods for lowering 

 and disengaging them from ships at sea; also plan as fitted to whaling ships' boats for getting 

 boats quickly and quietly away after the fish. Working models to be seen in action. 



362. BAKER, J. M. B., Hammersmith, London, W. (1) Ocean Courier. 

 (2) Boat Cradle. (3) Fire Subduer. 



363. EMERY, LEWIS, Sherringham, Norwich. Model of Life-boat, 

 fitted with tank to ballast with water when afloat. 



364. HOLMES, NATHANIEL J., 8 Great Winchester Street, London. 



(1) Life-Saving Equipments. (2) Mechanical Compound Reed Foghorns. (3) Life-Buoy 

 Rescue Light. (4) Shipwreck Distress Flare. (5) Collision Light and Boat Launching 

 Flare. (6) Torpedo Finders. (7) Fish Decoy Light. (8) " Raba," the Fish Preserver. 



365. WILLIAMS, A. H., 1 St. Mary's Road, Peckham, London. Samples 

 of Patented Pontoon or Air Vessel, which can be packed or stowed away in an incredible 

 small space, to be used in rafts for saving life at sea. Also for preventing vessels from 

 sinking ; also for raising sunken vessels, &c. 



366. KING, J., & CO., Boat Builder, Three Colt Street, Limehouse, E. 

 Copper fastened Life-boat Complete, fitted with yellow metal, air-tight buoyancy, Hill & 

 Clarke's lowering gear as supplied for emigrant ships, with oars, mast, sail, water breakers, 

 bailers, &c. 



368. TIMMIS, ILLIUS AUGUSTUS, 17 Great George Street, West- 

 minster, S.W. (1) A Coast Life-boat. (2) A ship's boat that is unsinkable and reversible, 

 and so acts as a life-boat or as a life raft, and that can be stowed at davits in the ordinary 

 way, or launched from a ship without any davits. It also is the best means for using with 

 rocket apparatus, and is pulled to a stranded or wrecked ship through any sea, and cannot be 

 stove in or swamped. It also serves for a pontoon raft for landing troops, &c. 



369. ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE BOAT INSTITUTION, 14 John 

 Street, Adelphi, London. (1) Life-boat (self-righting), full-size, on transporting car- 

 riage. (2) Model of Life-boat (self-righting), on transporting, carriage. (3) Model of first 

 English Life-boat (4) Model of same as modified and now in use. (5) Model of Norfolk 

 Life-boat. (6) Model of Tubular Life-boat. (7) Model of Safety Fishing Boat. (8) Model 

 of Boat-house and Boat. (9) Tank with working models. (10) Large Life Belt. (11) 

 Seaman's Life-Belt. (12) Self-acting Valve. (13) Rowing Crutch. (14) Life Buoy. (15) 

 Telescope. (16) Loaded Cane and Line. (17) Compass. (18) Verey's Pistol and Car- 

 tridges. (19) Model drogue. (20) Set of mounted instructions. (21) Wreck Charts, 

 Drawing of Life-boat House and Working drawings. 



371. EDINBURGH, H.R.H. THE DUKE OF, KG., Clarence House, 

 St. James's, London, S.W. Models of Life-boats which were presented for service in the Baltic 

 and Black Seas by the English inhabitants of St. Petersburgh upon the occasion of the 

 marriage of His Royal Highness. 



372. WORKSHOP FOR THE BLIND OF KENT. (1) Cork Fenders. 



(2) Fish Basket. (3) Life saving Cushions. 



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