. The sea [microform] : its stirring story of adventure, peril & heroism. Adventure and adventurers; Voyages and travels; Ocean; Aventures et aventuriers; Voyages; Océan. AID FOR SHIPWRECKED MARINERS. â ZTi 48,000 mariners subscribe to the benefit fund organised under its auspices.* The history of this excellent association, which has now an income of nearly £29,000, is interestiii<i^. "A worthy, philanthropic medical man, Mr. John Rye, of Bath, had a servant who had formerly been a sailor, and was in the habit of reading the newspapers to his master. One morning their attention
. The sea [microform] : its stirring story of adventure, peril & heroism. Adventure and adventurers; Voyages and travels; Ocean; Aventures et aventuriers; Voyages; Océan. AID FOR SHIPWRECKED MARINERS. â ZTi 48,000 mariners subscribe to the benefit fund organised under its auspices.* The history of this excellent association, which has now an income of nearly £29,000, is interestiii<i^. "A worthy, philanthropic medical man, Mr. John Rye, of Bath, had a servant who had formerly been a sailor, and was in the habit of reading the newspapers to his master. One morning their attention was arrested by an account of some fearful wrecks of fishing boats, with loss of life, on the north coast of Devon. The servant asked his master if there was any fund out of which help could be obtained to relieve the families of those men. The. ' «l THE HOME FOR AGED MERCHANT SEAMEN, BELVEDERE, KENT. master replied that he supposed there was, but he would make intjuiries from Admiral Sir Jahleen Brenton, then Governor of Greenwich Hospital; and from liim he found that there was none. They then together drew up a prosj^ctus, and jiresonted it to the late Admiral of the Fleet, Sir George Cockburn, who most heartily took the matter up, and after circulating the appeal widely, called a public meeting in February, 1839, at which Sir George was appointed President, and a number of noblemen and gentlemen formed themselves into a committee, of which the worthy Chairman, Captain the Hon. Francis Maude, , is now the sole survivor. The following month Her Majesty the Queen graciously consented to be the Patron of the Society; and so pr(isi)erou3 was the infant ⢠The scale of relief to members, their widows, orphans, or parents (when dependent) is as liberal as oni' coiil<l expect. A fisherman or mariner receives compensation for loss of boat or clothes ; a widow with two cbildi-en may obtain as mueli as £19 2b. Cd. ; and with four eliildren, £25 10s. 165. Please n
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