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AN APPEAL - TO THE - BRITISH NATION, - ON THE - Humanity and Policy - OF FORMING - A NATIONAL INSTITUTION, - FOR THE PRESERVATION OF - LIVES AND PROPERTY - FROM - SHIPWRECK.
BY SIR WILLIAM HILLARY, BARONET. - AUTHOR OF "A PLAN FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A STEAM LIFE BOAT AND FOR THE EXTINGUISHMENT OF FIRE AT SEA;""SUGGESTIONS FOR THE IMPROVEMENT AND EMBELLISHMENT OF THE METROPOLIS," AND "A SKETCHOF IRELAND IN 1824."
AN APPEAL, - &c.
APPENDIX.
No. I.
No. II.
No. III. - ROYAL NATIONAL INSTITUTION - FOR - THE PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK.
Language
en
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Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
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Produced by Martin Pettit and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
Release date
2008-11-24
Rights
Public domain in the USA.

1771–1847
Best remembered as the founder of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, he turned firsthand experience of shipwreck danger into a lasting lifesaving mission. Soldier, writer, and philanthropist, he helped shape one of Britain’s most enduring rescue charities.
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