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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 2 0 Browse Search
Margaret Fuller, Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (ed. W. H. Channing) 2 0 Browse Search
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Life-boat. A boat with air-chambers or floats of cork, to give it great buoyancy and allow it to carry a load even when filled with water. A common boat may be turned to a life-boat by increasing its flotative power. This may be done by bags of cork shavings, packages of cork, inflated bags, air-tight chambers, casks of air, etc. In cases of emergency, various means have been devised by ingenious men under the inspiration of danger or the force of professional training and habit. Brimmer's life-boat, used in England at the close of the last century, had kegs lashed inside the gunwale, bilge-keels, and a keel weighted with iron. The belemnite, a calcareous fossil, the internal bone of an extinct family of cephalapods, seems to have united the principle of the float to that of the sinker, as we see it in some of our modern life-boats, which are steadied on their keel by one principle and preserved from foundering by the other; as in the boy's mimic smack which he hollows o