WIRELESS FOR LIFEBOATS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2109, 28 March 1914, Page 13

WIRELESS FOR LIFEBOATS.

A NEW DEPARTURE. When the Aquitania—-tiro great new Cunarder—sails on iter maiden, voyugo in Juno next, not- only will sho lie'rsalf be fitted with "wireless," but he.r. lifeboats will be similarly equipped. The visssel will ha tho iirst in tlio World to carry boats fitted with a Marconi installation, and tlio departure thus, marks ,a- further stage in tlio word of robbing the. sea of its terrors, while incidentally depriving future romancers- of so in o of tli.eir ftiost exciting material. No longer will it bo Accessary, when tin? Aquitania precedent is genirally followed, for passengers east away on the sea to bang it shift oil tho end of ail oar. in order to attract tlio atteatuwi of ft passing sfcfe. A wireless message will make a much. mow efficient nppeaL Ait t'ho Marconi offices recently a reprC'SWitatiTO of tho "Daily News" was told that the range of communication in the caso of the lifeboats depended on the lioight of tho masts fitted to tlte'm. A. ten-foot, aerial would givo u range of 11' milte. If tfio_ aerial were fixed to ; a kite ans I'lte height o? tho kite were 150 feet, the rangft would b& 81 miles. A ccrtain number of the ship's hands would ha'vo to bo trained ia the working erf tho apparatus..