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• Forbes, R. B. (Robert Bennet), 1804-1889: Life-Boats, Projectiles and Other Means for Saving Life (Boston: W. P. Lunt, 1872) (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Forbes, R. B. (Robert Bennet), 1804-1889: An appeal to merchants and ship owners, on the subject of seamen. A lecture delivered at the request of the Boston marine society, March 7, 1854 (Sleeper & Rogers, 1854), also by Boston Marine Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• Forbes, R. B. (Robert Bennet), 1804-1889: Autobiography (Little, Brown, and Company, 1882), also by John Wilson and Son, Mass.) University Press (Cambridge, and Brown and Company Little (page images at HathiTrust)
• Forbes, R. B. (Robert Bennet), 1804-1889: An interesting memoir of the Jamestown voyage to Ireland (J. B. Cullen & company, 1890) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Forbes, R. B. (Robert Bennet), 1804-1889: The Isthmus ship railway and canal as commercial routes. ([n.p., 1880) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Forbes, R. B. (Robert Bennet), 1804-1889: The life boat, and other life-saving inventions. (A. Williams and Company, 1880) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Forbes, R. B. (Robert Bennet), 1804-1889: Life-boats, projectiles and other means for saving life (W. P. Lunt, 1872) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Forbes, R. B. (Robert Bennet), 1804-1889: Loss of the Essex, destroyed by a whale : with an account of the sufferings of the crew, who were driven to extreme measures to sustain life (J. Wilson and Son, University Press, 1884) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Forbes, R. B. (Robert Bennet), 1804-1889: Making ocean highways more safe. (J.H. Eastburn, 1867) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Forbes, R. B. (Robert Bennet), 1804-1889: A new rig for ships and other vessels : combining economy, safety and convenience (printed by John Wilson & Son, 1851), also by Louis Malesherbes Goldsborough and John Wilson and Son (page images at HathiTrust)
• Forbes, R. B. (Robert Bennet), 1804-1889: A new rig for ships and other vessels : combining economy, safety and convenience (Wier and White, 1849) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Forbes, R. B. (Robert Bennet), 1804-1889: New rig for steamers: about 368 feet over all (James F. Cotter & Co., 1883) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Forbes, R. B. (Robert Bennet), 1804-1889: Notes on navigation. (J.F. Cotter & Co., Printers, 1884) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Forbes, R. B. (Robert Bennet), 1804-1889: Notes on ships of the past ([s. n.], 1885) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Forbes, R. B. (Robert Bennet), 1804-1889: Notes on some few of the wrecks and rescues during the present century / by R. B. Forbes. (Little, Brown and company, 1889) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Forbes, R. B. (Robert Bennet), 1804-1889: On the establishment of a line of mail steamers; from the western coast of the United States, on the Pacific, to China. (Boston Journal Office, 1855) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Forbes, R. B. (Robert Bennet), 1804-1889: Personal reminiscences (R.B. Forbes, 1876) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Forbes, R. B. (Robert Bennet), 1804-1889: Personal reminiscences ([Cambridge, Press of J. Wilson and son], 1876) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Forbes, R. B. (Robert Bennet), 1804-1889: Personal reminiscences ... (Little, Brown, and company, 1878) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Forbes, R. B. (Robert Bennet), 1804-1889: The prize steamer "Cherokee," formerly the "Thistle." (Printed by J. Wilson and son, 1864) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Forbes, R. B. (Robert Bennet), 1804-1889: Protection of ships from lightning, according to principles established (Printed by Sleeper & Rogers, 1848), also by W. Snow Harris (page images at HathiTrust)
• Forbes, R. B. (Robert Bennet), 1804-1889: Remarks on China and the China trade. (Samuel N. Dickinson, printer, 1844) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Forbes, R. B. (Robert Bennet), 1804-1889: Shipwreck by lightning. Papers relative to Harris lightning conductors. (Printed by Sleeper & Rogers, 1853), also by W. Snow Harris (page images at HathiTrust)
• Forbes, R. B. (Robert Bennet), 1804-1889: The voyage of the Jamestown on her errand of mercy (Eastburn Press, 1847) (page images at HathiTrust)

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