A WONDERFUL LIFE BUOY.
The Rodway life-buoy consists of an oblong tin cylinder, sixteen inches long, and four and a half inches in diameter. At each end of the eylinder, and about two inches from the extremity, is affixed webbing, to whioh is attached a sling of the same material for the purpose of placing the head through and holding the buoy to the body. The total weight of the buoy is bub twenty-four ounces. It is said to be impossible for a man to sink whilst holding this small cylinder. The webbing flung round the neok permitted the movement of the cylinder to any position of the body, where the holding of it would ensure the head being kept out of the water. Major Rod way suggests that these bnoys should bo kept on board a vessel to the number of the hands and passengers, and, as a score of them can be packed in a box which would contain two dozen of wine, the seats on deck should be so formed as to stow the buoys away.
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Globe, Volume XXI, Issue 1708, 11 August 1879, Page 4
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179A WONDERFUL LIFE BUOY. Globe, Volume XXI, Issue 1708, 11 August 1879, Page 4
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