Image: Testing lifeboat in Limehouse Cut

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Description: A lifeboat's self-righting power is tested by tipping it over with a crane at the Royal National Lifeboat Institution's store yard beside the Limehouse Cut c.1885 Illustrations for "Lifeboats and Lifeboat-men" by C F Staniland in the English Illustrated Magazine of February and March 1886
Title: Testing lifeboat in Limehouse Cut
Credit: Illustrations from "Lifeboats and Lifeboat-men" in the "English Illustrated Magazine" in February and March 1886. Written and illustrated by Charles Joseph Staniland (Part 1: Pages 322, 333-342, Part 2: Page 386, 395-403) https://hdl.handle.net/2027/inu.30000093210700
Author: Charles Joseph Staniland
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