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1851 Great Exhibition: Official Catalogue: Class VIII.: Jonas Bateman

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335. BATEMAN, JONAS, 101 Upper Street, Islington — Inventor and Patentee.

Patent life-boat, constructed for 30 persons. The object of the exhibitor has been to render it incapable of being stove, sunk, or upset by any sea under any circumstances. It has been exposed to the most violent testing on the coast for four months.

Patent life-boat, constructed for six persons, on a precisely similar principle, and having had the same testing.


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