![John Mallord William Turner - Life-Boat and Manby Apparatus Going Off to a Stranded Vessel Making Signal (Blue Lights) of Distress [c.1831] by Gandalf's Gallery](http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7135/13376111533_16ef1e5284.jpg)
John Mallord William Turner - Life-Boat and Manby Apparatus Going Off to a Stranded Vessel Making Signal (Blue Lights) of Distress [c.1831], a photo by Gandalf's Gallery on Flickr.
The Manby apparatus was a lifesaving device consisting of a rope fired from a mortar. Captain George Manby invented it after a shipwreck in 1807 at Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society in the year that this work was exhibited.
[Victoria & Albert Museum, London - Oil on canvas, 91.4 x 122 cm]