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The Minute Books of the Suffolk Humane Society - A Pioneer Lifesaving Organisation and the World's First Sailing Lifeboat, 1806-1892 (Hardcover)
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The Minute Books of the Suffolk Humane Society - A Pioneer Lifesaving Organisation and the World's First Sailing Lifeboat, 1806-1892 (Hardcover)
Series: Suffolk Records Society
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Documents from the Suffolk Humane Society reveal many fascinating
details of life in a coastal town in the nineteenth century. The
Suffolk Humane Society was formed in 1806 after the pattern of the
Royal Humane Society of London, its purpose being to reward those
who saved their fellows from drowning and those who resuscitated
people who had apparently died. It took on additional duties the
following year when it undertook the financing and administration
of the Lowestoft lifeboat Frances Ann, the world's first sailing
lifeboat and one of the most successful early lifesaving craft in
Britain. The story of the Frances Ann, which was credited with
saving more than 300 lives by the time she was replaced in 1850, is
of great interest to maritime historians. The first craft intended
for lifesavingto carry sail, she was the forerunner of a type of
lifeboat that found favour on the east coast for the rest of the
nineteenth century and beyond. This pioneering lifesaving
organisation continued to operate the lifeboats atLowestoft and
Pakefield, in spite of a sometimes chronic lack of financial
support, until it handed over the two stations and their boats to
the Royal National Lifeboat Institution in 1873; it was not finally
wound up until 1892. The documents presented here detail its
activities and finances; they are accompanied by an introduction
and elucidatory notes. An East Anglian by birth and upbringing,
Robert Malster has been involved with the study of local history
for more than half a century and is the author of a number of books
on the region. He is a member of the Society for Nautical Research
and of a number of historical organisations in Suffolk.
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