"ECHO SOUNDING."
DEVICE BEING BUILT INTO SHIPS. (UNITEfc PRESS ASSOCIATION HI JLECTBIC TJEt.EOB APS —COPIBJOHT..' LONDON, March 11. "Echo sounding" as an aid to navigation is making rapid progress. Naval officers and the British Admiralty pioneered the new system by installing it in sorveying vessels, but difficulty was encountered in catting the necessary holes in the existing ships. Instruments are now being bunt in the shell of the new ships without perforation. Fifty British merchantmen have been fitted inside two vears, among the satisfactory results being the Roval Mail ship Asturias. A striking tribute to the comes from the navigating officer or the cruiser H.M.A.S. Australia, deferring especially to navigation m tne vicinity of Halifax and the Bt. rence he said that, echo sounding proved of the utmost use, adding 25 per cent, to the ship's safotv in thick weather in pilotage waters. —"The limes Cables.
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Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19567, 13 March 1929, Page 17
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