Great Britain Division IX. Life-boat Shed. 43 



smaller or larger according to the force of wind. To come to shore from a ship on the main 

 With the wind parallel with the coast, to drop at command, and to be worked by one line only. 

 Carrying its own light or lantern by night. 



385. LAMBART, LT.-COL. HpN. O. G., 10 Cliff Parade, Soutliend-on- 

 Sea. Life-saving Apparatus. " The Utrinque," principally for collisions or founderings. 

 Easily stowed, always ready for use, has only to be thrown overboard anyhow. Provisioned 

 for several days and provided with sail and oar ; can neither founder nor upset, nor its inmates 

 be washed out. Not liable to injury by contact with the wreck. It is amply sufficient for 

 four men. 



386. WRIGHT, JAMES, 15 Jamaica Eoad, Bermondsey, London, S.E. 

 (1) Models of improved never-failing self-righting Shore Life-boat and Ship's Life-boat, for 

 experimental testing, if necessary, the Shore Life-boat will self-right in all weathers, with sails 

 set and sheets fast. (2) Also specimen model of Shore Life-boat. 



387. WOOLFE, F. W., & SON, 46 Lower Shadwell, and Middle 

 Shadwell, London, E. (1) Unsinkable Ship's Lifeboat, 25 ft. long by 7 ft. beam, constructed 

 for use on board passenger ships ; fitted with movable air-tight cases on each side and fore and 

 aft, to carry twenty passengers, independent of her crew. (2) Model of Unsinkable Ship's 

 Lifeboat in glass case. 



389. METEOROLOGICAL OFFICE. Collection of Meteorological 

 Instruments and arrangements for storm warnings, &c., from various countries. 



III. GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND. The Meteorological Council, i!6, Victoria Street, 

 S.W. Lieut.-Gen. E. Strachey, K.E., F.K.S., Chairman; Eobert H. Scott, M.A., F.K.S., 

 Secretary. (1) A Series of Twelve Charts, showing the temperature of the sea surface on the 

 coasts of the United Kingdom in each month of the year from observations taken by the Coast 

 Guard Lighthouse officials, &c., &c. (These are exhibited in the Central Hall.) (2) Two 

 Charts showing the mean temperature of the entire sea surface in the months of February and 

 August, being the coldest and hottest respectively, compiled from original observations. (3) 

 A Daily Weather Chart from North- Western Europe at 8 a.m., and a Forecast issued at 11 a.m. 

 (These will be exhibited in a frame in the Central Hall, and will be changed every day about 

 noon.) (4) Map showing the existing arrangements for Weather Telegraphy on the coasts of 

 the British Islands. (5) A Model of a Storm Warning Station, with Cone hoisted. (6) A 

 Barometer such as is supplied on loan for public exhibition to fishing stations ; 160 stations 

 have been supplied with barometers by the Meteorological Office, and in addition many 

 stations have been supplied by the National Lifeboat Institution, or by private munificence. 

 (7) A set of Meteorological Instruments such as is supplied to ships, (a) A Marine Barometer, 

 Kew pattern. (&) Box containing a set of Six Thermometers, viz., two for wet and dry bull 

 thermometers, one for sea surface temperature, three spare, (c) Box containing a set of four 

 Hydrometers for ascertaining the specific gravity of the sea. (d) A Thermometer Screen with 

 thermometers mounted, as supplied to ship, (e) Copy of Log, Hough Book and Instructions. 



390. BRASSEY, LADY, Normanhurst Court, Battle, Sussex. (1) Model of 

 a Viking Ship, the " Ellida." So named by Lady Brassey^after one of the most famous Viking 

 vessels. The model exhibited, a yacht's gig, represents in the details of her structure, the 

 great "Viking" Ship. It was adapted by the Marquis of Ailsa, and built at the Culzean Yacht 

 and Steam-Launch Works, Maybole, Scotland. The original was discovered in 1880 at 

 Gokstad, near the town of Sandefjord, west of the mouth of Christiana Fjord, a farm on a 

 peninsula in Norway. The great interest attached to it is in consequence of it having been 

 one of the burial war-ships in which noted men, according to tradition, were interred during the 

 9th, 10th, and llth centuries after Christ. This mode of burial has proved of great importance 

 to archaeologists, since on excavating some of the grave-mounds in which it was adopted, ships 

 from that remote period have been brought to light in a more or less perfect state of pre- 

 servation. The period is the later Iron Age or " Viking " Period. It rarely happens that 

 grave-mounds consist of a substance in which wood can be preserved for centuries, but this ship 

 (like one other, found in the parish of Tune in 1867 between the Christiana Fjord and the 

 Swedish frontier) seems to have been buried in a mound of blue-clay, a species of earth 

 specially selected for its excellent qualities as a preserver of wood. It was excavated by Mr. 

 Nicolaysen, and now belongs to the collection of antiquities in the University of Christiania. 



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