Manby mortar (line-throwing rescue mortar)
Mortero de salvamento de Manby (cabo lanzado a buques embarrancados)
- Date
- 1807-1808 · confidence medium
- Place
- Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England, United Kingdom
- Credited to
- George William Manby
- Field
- Movement
What it is
A mortar firing an iron ball attached to a line over a stranded ship, to set a line from shore and rescue the crew with a breeches buoy. Manby devised it after the wreck of the Snipe off Great Yarmouth in 1807.
The first successful trial was in 1808. Rockets replaced it in the mid-19th century.
What it led to
- rescue stations with line and breeches buoy
- Dennett and Boxer rescue rockets
- coastguard line-throwing apparatus