English: A lifeboat's self-righting power is tested by tipping it over with a crane at the Royal National Lifeboat Institution's store yard beside the Limehouse Cut c.1885
Illustrations for "Lifeboats and Lifeboat-men" by C F Staniland in the English Illustrated Magazine of February and March 1886
Date
1886
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Illustrations from "Lifeboats and Lifeboat-men" in the "English Illustrated Magazine" in February and March 1886. Written and illustrated by Charles Joseph Staniland (Part 1: Pages 322, 333-342, Part 2: Page 386, 395-403)
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Captions
The RNLI's lifeboat testing facility on the Limehouse Cut, London