The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-08-17 00:00:00

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The Humane Society of Dunkirk last week ternii•
nated and launched • lifeboat, built on the principle of
the Royal National Lifeboat Institution of Great
Britain, alter the design of Mr. James Peske,
Hester Shipwright of Her Majeety's Dockyard, Wool-
wich, and dtted on Mr. Beecdnuo's plan. Toe committee
oonduoting the affairs of the society having solicited Mr.
Peake's inspection of their boot prior to it. being
applied to its destined purpose, he proceeded to Duip
kirk on the Mid of July, and discovered that the water
had penetrated into the air moo, and under the deck,
and that the cork was saturated with water, which cir-
cuuistantee would tend to • rapid decay of the boat.
The deck was consequently removed, the inside of the
boat olcared, a watertight desk fitted, with ball, valves,
Igo., solid shucks fixed for the relieving tube., and the
upper aides of the end O&M flattened with cork. The
abovellarsial alteration. occupied three weeks, when the
bust was leunehed over the pier into the sea, ten feet
below, mil was submerged. rilio Instantly righted, and
relieved herself of the whole of the water in a very few
seconds, to the great gratification and no small IU11110•
moot of a crowd of spectators who had collected to wit.
11001 the event.

An Attempt to launoh the floe ;Mem bigots Wormy,
40, look pleat Thurodoy afternoon end wee witmoned
ity leveret thouesnd opitatotore boi on.lond end water,
but .n 4,4 in It complete failure, he money it 0110 ar
the moot ulogniNaenLrielioene of novel Affilitellillre ill
1110 world, Aim ia r ohM to the Orlopflo, NO, covey
oteemer, recently loune led At Pembroke Poekyoril, and
he tile 00110,11 of the four lutuienee meow eteem (Noble
the late Lard+, of the Admitelly ordered to be atm
etruelW_M @comet* with the weir steamers built
for the UMW glebe! novy. he 'ferny woo etim,
maimed building M Jpisery, lON , The Tint. clip on
which obi we. WI down lied to be leno lofted nearly
100 feet g order to oeteinimedete her. he following
Nowell w II convey atone Wee of her illoomeiono
treme length, WO feet 0 in, 1 leT Mimeo tli between nerptoull.
eider*, NW feet 1 length of keel fur , 1104 feet
hi, i !Atrial@ breedth, 111 feel i readth For loony/p i 111
feel 0 jno Itreodili mould NO oil, feel I iu,j kith o
hold, 10 feel 10 iii. 1 Mullion In tone, 11,1110 T 904 1 her
total lenith of engine epees he 11411 feel, end elm will be
1111.4 w itw_linleillilerri II pert of with* lo ii reedy on
Wood, o ,000 home pewith hut wllleli ern be viteil
up to cone erebly Illert Tile 11111011 wit oppoiii to
1011, nixes At the Mill 1.1,1110,6?0 I few 11111111 in inf
il a elitillti, the
_teritiliony f ' v irioloultqf wet pep
forme by Mee illeholoon, agility, of W. 11. Nishoh
Oath ~ Itotiliooter, and the mit divinity kiioqkvd
a wily. 'he yew', however,. re toted ko move, and ell
eittlillinli 11l 1111111 e her 011 the NINA. Were id tie IWO,
At length die woo agein o lured um 1I lo thinighi the
Whirr. ARM from there not being oultloient "coot" for
her, Another miteilipt made lo Linnets her on Pridey
WAN tillite inteetioefill,
Tl4ll AOAlf eilmoe,—The Aganiemnon, Cepa Pitted',
*Melt left fatieenelown at I pm, on
il‘Tika inp
edity, entered
Plymouth Wound, with the Atlonli legrepli th
pen m y'o Nog NI the ain, et N mio. eq eilhoodly, 14er
AVON Intent thAt lo etitiootavitee or her eitreille light,
nein After the dlootiorge of the seble, and of the loony
woollier tomerienotel, elle wail In greeter droner of Whig
loot while in Valenti* fey time when the gale mieurred
In the Atlentle, lite lay very elver to the rooks, and in
peying of drifted, but wet lumpily brought tip by the
etaritard anther, The Agaitieuinun left In the evening
for lapitheat