File:Mr Greenfields Invention (5980801458).jpg

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A rather unusual photo in our collections of an "invention" by a Mr Greenfield (no other information). Presumably it was a mechanism for launching lifeboats on a grand scale.

Stop me if I'm being too fanciful here, but the Titanic sank on 15 April 1912. Could that tragedy have given rise to this invention? One survivor of the sinking was a Mr William Bertram Greenfield who escaped in Lifeboat 7 - a relative, perhaps?

Date: 6 August 1912

NLI Ref.: P_WP_2401a
Source Mr Greenfield's Invention
Author National Library of Ireland on The Commons
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Camera location52° 15′ 43.09″ N, 7° 06′ 38.2″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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