Archive: September 2024

Shipwrecked Mariners' Society Marine Barometers in Unusual Cases
Aneroid, Barometers, Conservation, History of Aneroid Barometers, Vavasseur Antiques - Antique & Vintage Aneroid Barometers, Barographs & Other Scientific Instruments | September 26, 2024
Shipwrecked Mariners’ Society Marine Barometers in Unusual Cases
The Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners’ Royal Benevolent Society, better known as the Shipwrecked Mariners’ Society, was established by John Rye in February 1839 as a result of the tragic loss of a fleet of fishing boats on the north Devon coast in October 1838. The Society’s objectives were to give “relief and assistance to the widows and orphans of fishermen;...