The Repertory of Arts, Manufactures, and Agriculture (Volume 25, Nos. 145-150); Consisting of Original Communications, Specifications of Patent Inventions, Practical and Interesting Papers, Selected from the Philosophical Transactions and Scientific Journ (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1814. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... Temporary Rudder, for the Preservation of Ships from being lost at Sea. By Captain JAmes Peat, of Bloomsbury-square. With a Plate. From the Transactions of jthe Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce. The Gold Medal was voted to Captain Peat for this Invention. J BEG to submit, for the consideration of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, a sketch of a temporary rudder, invented and used by me on board of the ship Cornwall, under my command, on my voyage from this country to Jamaica, in January, 1811; which ship was engaged by the Transport Board for the conveyance of 14 officers, 200 privates, seven women, and four children, to Barbadoes. In lat. 44 . 0', long. 19 SO, on my passage out, I encountered a very severe gale of wind 'with a heavy sea, which carried away my rudder, and the rudder braces on the stern-post: I was, therefore, under the necessity of fixing a temporary one from the best materials I had then on board. On reference to a plan of Pakenham's temporary rudder, I found it impracticable to fix a rudder constructed on his plan, on account of the heavy sea to which we were exposed. . It was, therefore, absolutely necessary, for the preservation of the lives entrusted to my care, that I should set about the construction of a rudder, which could be brought to act iq a heavy sea, or under any circumstances whatever. This, I am happy to *ay, I accomplished, after a progressive improvement of fifteen days, and found this machine, when substantially j /, fixed, fixed, to act in every point with the same effect as the regular rudder. One of the great advantages of the rudder invented by me is, that it can be shipped and unshipped at pleasure with the greatest facility, and unde...