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Chapter 1. The Early Years 1. Dawson, Britain’s Life-Boats, 17. 2. Ibid., 18. 3. Lewis, History of the Life-Boat and Its Work, 4. 4. Dawson, Britain’s Life-Boats, 20. 5. Ibid., 22; Lewis, History of the Life-Boat and Its Work, 5. 6. Dawson, Britain’s Life-Boats, 25. 7. Lamb, The Life-Boat and Its Work, 12–17. 8. Osler, Mr. Greathead’s Lifeboats, 42. 9. Ibid., 86–92 10. White, British Fishing-Boats and Coastal Craft, pt. 1, 12–14. 11. Ibid., pt. 2, 30–31. 12. Osler, Mr. Greathead’s Lifeboats, 29, 34. 13. Ibid., 82. 14. Dawson, Britain’s Life-Boats, 79. 15. Methley, The Life-Boat and Its Story, 81–82; Dawson, Britain’s Life-Boats, 78. 16. Dawson, Britain’s Life-Boats, 80. 17. Ibid., 60–61; Lewis, History of the Life-Boat and Its Work, 18–23; Methley, The Life-Boat and Its Story, 63–64. 18. Dawson, Britain’s Life-Boats, 82. 19. Report of the Committee Appointed to Examine the LifeBoat Models Submitted to Compete for the Premium Offered by His Grace the Duke of Northumberland, 2. 20. Ibid., 27. 21. Ibid., 40. 22. Lewis, History of the Life-Boat and Its Work, 35. 23. Methley, The Life-Boat and Its Story, 77. 24. Ibid., 116–17. 25. Farr to W. D. Wilkinson, 1972. 26. UK National Maritime Museum to W. D. Wilkinson, 1977. 27. Howe, The Humane Society of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 46. 28. Ibid., 107. 29. Ibid., 101. 30. Ibid., 223. 31. Ibid., 221. 32. Pond, History of Life-Saving Appliances, 32–36. 33. S. Evans, The United States Coast Guard 1790–1915—A Definitive History, 57–58. 34. Albion, The Rise of New York Port (1815–1860), 273; Toms River (N.J.) Ocean Democrat, May 20, 1880; Rattray, Ship Ashore! 96. 35. U.S. Life-Saving Service, Annual Report for 1876, 43–45. 36. Ehrhardt, Joseph Francis (1801–1893): Shipbuilder, 9. 37. Report of the Committee Appointed to Examine the LifeBoat Models Submitted to Compete for the Premium Offered by His Grace the Duke of Northumberland, 32. 38. Forbes, Life-Boats, Projectiles and Other Means for Saving Life, 13. 39. Parsons, “Montauk Point Long Island,” 488. 40. Forbes, Life-Boats, Projectiles and Other Means for Saving Life, 147. 41. Report of a Special Committee of the Philadelphia Board of Trade, 12. 42. Report to the Secretary of the Treasury on the Furnishing of New Lifeboats for Stations on the New Jersey Shore, October 7, 1854. 43. U.S. Life-Saving Service, Annual Report for 1876, 43–45. 44. Report to the Secretary of the Treasury on the Furnishing of New Lifeboats for Stations on the New Jersey Shore, October 7, 1854. 45. Report of a Special Committee of the Philadelphia Board of Trade, 10. 46. Ibid., 13. 47. Guthorn, The Sea Bright Skiff and Other Shore Boats, 82. 48. Report to the Secretary of the Treasury on the Furnishing of New Lifeboats for Stations on the New Jersey Shore, October 7, 1854. 49. Report of a Special Committee of the Philadelphia Board of Trade, 24–25. 50. Ibid., 15. 51. U.S. Revenue Marine Service, Annual Report for 1870, 58. Chapter 2. Development and Refinement of Design 1. Howe, The Humane Society of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 234. 2. C. Evans, Rescue at Sea, 44. 3. U.S. Life-Saving Service, Annual Report for 1876, 40–52. 4. Smith and Powell, The Coast Guard: Its History, Activities , and Organization, 28; U.S. Life-Saving Service, Annual Report for 1876, 45–47; Kimball, Report of the General Superintendent of the Life-Saving Service Relative to the Claims of W. A. Newell. 5. Forbes, Life-Boats, Projectiles and Other Means for Saving Life, 15–16; Faunce, Report to the 42nd U.S. Congress, 1872. 6. Wilkinson, “American Coastal Lifeboat Development: An English Contribution,” 178–79. NOTES 152 Notes 7. U.S. Revenue Marine Service, Annual Report for 1873, 30–31. 8. Report of Second International Lifeboat Federation Conference , 1928, 89 9. Test certificate of American 30 ft. pulling/sailing lifeboat , RNLI, 1873. 10. U.S. Revenue Marine Service, Annual Report for 1873, 30–31. 11. Kimball, Organization and Methods of the United States Life-Saving Service, 18–20; U.S. Life-Saving Service, Annual Report for 1877, 44–50. 12. Ashley, The Yankee Whaler, 57–64. 13. Chapelle, American Small Sailing Craft, 42. 14. Ansel, The Whaleboat, 102–3. 15. Chapelle, American Small Sailing...

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