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Date transcribed2000-00-00
Transcribed bySteve van Dulken

Surname  Braithwaite    
First names  John    
Rank/ occupation  Inventor of diving bell    
Death date  1818    
Place of death  Westbourne Green    
Source  Gentleman's Magazine    
Date  1818 Suppl. Part I    
Page number  644    
Detail  Lately. At Westbourne-green, after a short illness occasioned by a paralytic stroke, John Braithwaite, esq�. [built a diving bell before 1783, which he used in 1788 to recover from the Hartwell Indiaman off Bonavista, Cape Verde Islands, £38,000 in dollars, & in 1806 recovered from the Abergavenny off Portland £75,000 in dollars].    
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