NEW LIFEBOAT.
WORK OF RESCUING 'PLANES. RUGBY, January 14. The new lifeboat for the rescue of distressed cross-Channel aviators, to In? stationed at Dover, will he the first to be fitted with wireless telephony. She will be 64ft long, with two cabins t-i hold about .i 0 people. The boat will be lighted by electricity, and have searchlights and a line-throwing gun.
The motor power will be two 375 horsepower Thornycroft engines, of the type used on coastal motor-boats in the Navy,
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 12, 15 January 1929, Page 7
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