The Life-Boat and Its Story (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Life-Boat and Its StoryAt last, after wide digression, we have come back to the ¿oating crock, that we mentioned in our first page, for it is upon that same crock that the essential principle is founded. As a matter Of history, it was not until something more than a hundred years ago that the theory and the crock were brought together, but un doubtedly the principle was adopted from the earliest times. Our Viking forbears built their great open vessels on identical lines, and the same unconsidered fragment has impressed its characteristics upon the surf-boats of the world. However, we will stick to history. The crock was the immediate ancestor of the self-righting life-boat, and this is the true story of the dis covery of its capabilities.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.