3-074-513 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Sketches at the International Fisheries Exhibition, 1883. '1. Life-Saving Apparatus of Board of Trade. 2. Norfolk Fisherman in Wet Weather Dress. 3. A Squeeze for the Sixpenny Fish Dinner. 4. Canoe from South Sea Islands (Lady Brassey's Collection). Figurehead of War Canoe, Queen Charlotte's Sound, 1774. 6. Mussel Dredge, from the Orkneys. 7. Model of Fishing-Boat with Cormorants, from Ningpo, China....The rocket life-saving apparatus is shown in action, with a person seated in the receptacle to be hauled ashore by a pulley suspended from the cable...We present a sketch of the figure of a Norfolk fisherman attired for wet weather...the sixpenny plate of fish...has proved an attractive repast...[Lady Brassey] contributes the elaborately carved figurehead of a grand canoe which belonged to the natives of Queen Charlotte's Sound in 1774, and in which the chiefs of the tribe came to meet Captain Cook when his ship, the Resolution, lay in that harbour, on his second voyage of discovery... [There is] a large model to show the art of fishing by the aid of trained birds, cormorants...When used for fishing, they are kept short of food in the morning, and a hempen ring is fastened round their throats to prevent them from swallowing the fish'. From "Illustrated London News", 1883.