The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette (1839)
London : [William Laxton] · leaf 178
ter than cure ; that itis better to sare the lives of sailors, than to stand by and see themperish, and then provide fur their families who may be left destitute,and that Harbours of Refuge would be the means of preventing manyof those calamities, no one can entertain a doubt; and that such… … A Committee ol the House of Commons was appointed in the ses-sion of 1836, for inquiring into the causes of shipwrecks, and theyreported, That three millions of property, and one thousand human lives, areannually lost by shipwrecks on our coasts; and that the want of efficientHarbours of Refuge was…
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