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| Title | Life-boats, Projectiles and Other Means for Saving Life |
| Author | Robert Bennet Forbes |
| Publisher | W. P. Lunt, 1872 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | Jun 13, 2007 |
| Length | 163 pages |
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