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Manby was born in the village of Denver on the edge of the Norfolk Fens.His parents were Mary Woodcock (1741-1783) and Captain Matthew Pepper Manby (1735-1774), lord of the manor of Wood Hall in Hilgay, a former soldier and aide-de-camp to Lord Townshend and barrack-master of Limerick at his death. [1]
The wreck was witnessed by captain George William Manby. [2] Following this tragedy, Manby experimented with mortars, and so invented the Manby Mortar, (later used with the breeches buoy), that fired a thin rope from shore into the rigging of a ship in distress. A strong rope, attached to the thin one, could be pulled aboard the ship.
Manby mortar, 1842 drawing John Cantiloe Joy, Going to a Vessel requiring assistance and Thereby preventing Shipwreck (undated), Norfolk Museums Collections. The Manby mortar or Manby apparatus was a maritime lifesaving device originated at the start of the 19th century, comprising a mortar capable of throwing a line to a foundering ship within reach of shore, such that heavier hawsers could ...
Captain George William Manby (1765–1854), barrack-master and inventor of marine life-saving equipment and the fire extinguisher [81] Mary Dawson Turner (1774–1850), artist and illustrator [ 82 ] Dawson Turner (1775–1858), banker, botanist and antiquary [ 83 ]
He was promoted to major in 1795, a fellow officer was Captain George Manby [2] By 1806 he was their colonel. [3] He was MP for Liskeard from 1812 to 1818. In 1801 he was appointed Secretary at War in Henry Addington's ministry, transferring to the Home Office in 1803, where he was a strong opponent of concession to the Roman Catholics .
Turner published a number of books and collaborated with other botanists. In December 1802, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. [4] In 1816, he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. [3] Through his first wife Mary, he met Captain George Manby, amateur artist, inventor and barrack-master of Yarmouth ...
Charlie Griffin, a fishing boat captain who was featured on multiple seasons of National Geographic’s Wicked Tuna spinoff, Wicked Tuna: Outer Banks, died in a boating accident Monday. His death ...
John Cantiloe Joy Royal Navy shipping in the Channel (undated) Born (1805-06-04) 4 June 1805 Great Yarmouth, Norfolk Died 10 August 1859 (1859-08-10) (aged 54) Soho, London Nationality British Known for Marine painting Movement Norwich School of painters William Joy Saving a Crew near Yarmouth Pier (undated, Norfolk Museums Collections) Born (1803-11-04) 4 November 1803 Great Yarmouth, Norfolk ...