WONDER LIFE BOAT.
NEW INVENTION IN BRITAIN. (British Official Wireless.) (Received 12 noon.) RUGBY, January 20. A motor life boat capable o.' righting itself in four seconds if holed and capsized, was formally handed over to the Royal National Life Boat Institution 011 the Thames and was later shipped to the east coast of Scotland, where it will be stationed. In rough weather the boat can accommodate 30 people. If a sea should break 011 board the boat can free itself in 12 seconds.
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Auckland Star, Issue 17, 21 January 1932, Page 7
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