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1.1 Introduction
Our UK Lifeboat History starts with the Preventative Water Guards in 1809, the
ancestor of HM Coastguard. Its main objective was to prevent smuggling, and
responsible for giving assistance to shipwrecks. For this reason, each Water Guard
station was issued with a Manbys Mortar (the mortar fired a shot with a line attached
from the shore to the wrecked ship and was used for many years). The mortar is a very
short cannon the Americans call it a Lyle Gun. From about the 1830s Rockets replaced
the mortar, as rockets were lighter to carry long distances, also used with flares could be
seen in the dark. Once the ropes were attached a pulley and Lifebelt formed a seat,
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and passengers to shore, called beeches buoy.
Lifeboats developed fromFREE
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boats with oars called pushers, sails were added for longer journeys. In 1785 Lionel
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was a strong heavy cast-iron keel, packed
inside the bow and stern airtight boxes, down each side of gunwales were thick layers of
cork. This made the boat almost unsinkable. Over the next 200 years the design
changed for the better, in 1851 the Duke of Northumberland held a competition, many
new designs were built the one that stands out for me was Henry Richardsons Tubular
Lifeboat. It had a long successful life stationed a Rhyl, North Wales. Its design has been
proven for over 100 years todays inflatables continue this unbroken line. You will enjoy
reading and discovering all these wonderful facts, my tribute and respect for those who
perish or are saved on the sea. Our gratitude goes to all Lifesavers, everywhere.
Michael Robert Mumford, December 2014.
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A larger Manbys Mortar
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being used from ship to
shore. This may be more
effective, firing with the
wind and not against it.
A point of safety the young
sailor seem to be in the
firing line. This mortar is a
very short cannon, the
Americans call it a gun!
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The Morgan
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One of the many odd-looking models
entered in the competition was that of the
Tubular life-boat, designed by Henry
Richardson and his son, of Bala in North
Wales. Unconventional though
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in accordance with the policy of the
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preferences expressed by those who would
have to man a boat, a 40 ft. Tubular life-boat
called The Morgan was built and put on
station at Rhyl. Forty years and many
services later, she was replaced by a second
of the same class which, in turn, was
followed by a third, known as the second
Caroline Richardson, original Patent 1851.
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