aircases

Updated: May 29, 2025

Mr Bremner's aircases were empty casks in the bow and stern, and his ballast was three hundredweight of iron attached to the keel. This plan, however, was not made practically useful until upwards of fifty years later, when twenty out of twenty-four men were lost by the upsetting of the non-self-righting lifeboat of South Shields.

R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne - Saved by the Lifeboat