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Captain Manby
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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- Category: Encyclopedias
- Organization: Project Gutenberg
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