History of Life-Saving Appliances, And Military And Naval Constructions. Invented And Manufactured By Joseph Francis, With Sketches And Incidents of His Business Life in the United States And Europe
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In the principle of Mr. Francis for corrugated metal vessels, all these qualities have been amply proved to reside by severe tests, and the actual service of many years. Some years after the time of which we are writing, in the Woolwich Dock yard, England, one of the Francis Metallic corrugated Life-boats, was subjected to a test that no boat could be expected to withstand. It so ably sustains the point we are illustrating, that we make the follow- ing quotations from a London Journal of that d...ate, in relation to the test. 42 HISTORY OF LIFE-SAVING APPLIAll'CES. A corrugated metal boat of the Francis patent, twenty feet long, was filled to the gunwale with paving-stones, then hoisted by tackle attached to the bow and stern, some ten, or more feet above a rocky sur- face, and then cut loose; to the surprise of all who witnessed the experi- ment, she did not receive the least injury, as she was at once launched, and rowed to the Dock. The inherent strength of a corrugated Life-hoat, or Life-car, is stamped within its own structure, "each corrugation forming a brace, or support in ctymhination." After Mr.
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