An essay on saving persons from drowning at the breaking of the ice ; delivered ... on the 19th of January 1814 / [George William Manby].

  • Manby, George William, 1765-1854
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[1814]
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Credit: An essay on saving persons from drowning at the breaking of the ice ; delivered ... on the 19th of January 1814 / [George William Manby]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The impression made on my mind by this shocking event, led me to think and reason on the most simple and prompt mode of affording assistance to persons in danger of being drowned by the Ice breaking beneath them. If the plan which I have lately devised, and now most * * ■ • ’ • «* • 1 t. respectfully submit to the consideration of the Royal Humane Society, and the Public, be adopted, I feel en¬ couraged to believe it is not going too far to assert that drowning by the breaking of the ice will scarcely, if ever, hereafter occur. I am therefore induced to recommend that it should be made known at those places to which skaiters resort, that implements are now constructed for giving imme¬ diate assistance in every case of danger or difficulty to which persons on the ice can be exposed. This appears to mp to he the more necessary when it is considered that the means heretofore in use, though they have sometimes been crowned with success, have too often proved abortive, * : I now beg leave to enter into a detail of the new method here proposed, and will elucidate my suggestions by re-* presenting models before the Committee, who will at first sight perceive the simplicity which prevails through every part of this new apparatus; and I do most ardently hope that this system will not only be promulgated by your benevolent Society, but trust that it will be carried into effect throughout the kingdom, and indeed in other countries'. C .; A De-