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Manby, Captain

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

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A militia officer, born in Norfolk; was inventor of the apparatus for saving shipwrecked persons, and by means of which he saved the lives of nearly a thousand persons himself (1765-1854).

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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Manby, Captain'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​nut/​m/manby-captain.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
 
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