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Henry Trengrouse
Henry Trengrouse, portrait by John Opie
Born
18 March 1772
Helston, Cornwall, England
Died
14 February 1854(1854-02-14) (aged 81)
Helston, Cornwall, England
Education
Helston Grammar School
Occupation
Engineer
Spouse
Mary (née Jenken)
Children
Three sons and five daughters
Parent(s)
Nicholas and Mary Trengrouse (née Williams)
Engineering career
Discipline
Civil
Significant design
'Rocket' life-saving apparatus, an early form of the Breeches buoy
Henry Trengrouse (18 March 1772 – 14 February 1854) was a British inventor who invented the "Rocket" lifesaving apparatus.
On 24 December 1807 he witnessed the wreck of the frigate Anson in Mount's Bay, when over a hundred people died, and this disaster led him to devote his life and patrimony to the discovery of some means for saving lives at shipwrecks. He spent much labour in attempting to devise a lifeboat, but produced no satisfactory results, and turned his attention to the "Rocket" lifesaving apparatus, an early form of the Breeches buoy. In addition to this, Trengrouse was dismayed at the then common practice of burying victims of shipwrecks in common graves in unconsecrated ground near the site of the wreck, having seen the dead from the Anson buried in the dunes at Loe Bar. He persuaded his local MP, Davies Gilbert, to work for a change in the law, and from 1808 the practice was abolished.
HenryTrengrouse (18 March 1772 – 14 February 1854) was a British inventor who invented the "Rocket" lifesaving apparatus. On 24 December 1807 he witnessed...
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close to shore, many lost their lives in the storm. This inspired HenryTrengrouse to invent the rocket-fired line, later to become the Breeches buoy...
the purpose of flares for signalling and battlefield illumination. HenryTrengrouse utilized the rocket in his life-saving apparatus, in which the rocket...
Manby. A rocket-based system was also devised by British engineer HenryTrengrouse in 1808. Sumner Increase Kimball, the first and subsequently only superintendent...
British rescue stations in the next two years.[citation needed] In 1808, HenryTrengrouse designed a rocket-based system which was similar to Manby's in the...
by William Moore – first appearance of the rocket equation 1818 - HenryTrengrouse demonstrates his rocket apparatus for projecting a lifeline from a...
"Renowden's farm"; Renowden is the Cornish form of Renaud or Reginald Trengrouse: Tre an Grows, "farm at the cross" Penprase: Penn Pras "head of the meadow...
disaster was the development of the rocket life-saving apparatus by HenryTrengrouse who witnessed the wreck, and an Act of Parliament for the Christian...
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Duke Coleridge, Richard Edmonds, Thomas Rowe Edmonds, John Rogers, HenryTrengrouse and James Trevenen. Previously a foundation school administered by...
Frederick Layton, Jeremiah Quin, Charles Ray, Emma Sercomb Rice, HenryTrengrouse, Peter Van Vechten, and George H. Webster. OCLC 37161810 – via Milwaukee...
catalogue." Coastguards of Yesteryear: "Manby Mortar or Rocket Apparatus" HenryTrengrouse Gunville#John Dennett, rocket inventor Manby, George William (1838)...
architect and civil engineer Joseph Treffry, engineer and industrialist HenryTrengrouse, inventor of a rocket-powered maritime rescue system Richard Trevithick...
on Loe Bar, Cornwall, with around sixty people drowned, inspiring HenryTrengrouse to invent a rocket apparatus for saving life from shipwrecks. Undated...
6th Baronet (c. 1722–1772), MP for West Looe and Governor of Jamaica HenryTrengrouse (1772–1854), inventor of a rocket-powered maritime rescue system Silvanus...
Frederick Layton, Jeremiah Quin, Charles Ray, Emma Sercomb Rice, HenryTrengrouse, Peter Van Vechten, and George H. Webster. OCLC 37161810 – via Milwaukee...
Parliament in 1880 and he sold Nansloe to Henry Rogers (died 1887), a solicitor and grandson of the inventor HenryTrengrouse. Rogers restored and re-roofed the...
Superintendent, India & Millwall Docks, Port of London Authority. Percy Walter Trengrouse, Clerical Officer, National Assistance Board. Dorothy Frances Urwin, Clerical...
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