ECHO SOUNDING
VALUE TO MERCHANT MARINE
"Times" Cubits.
(Received 12th March,. 1 p.m.)
• ■ LONDON, llth March. "Echo sounding" as an aid to navigation is making rapid progress in the British Mercantile Marine, says "The Times" naval correspondent. Tho British Admiralty pioneered the new system by installing surveying vessels, but difficulty was encountered in cutting the necessary hoUs in existing ships. Instruments are now being built in the shell of new ships without perforation. Fifty British merchantmen were so fittod inside two years. Satisfactory results are being roported by the Royal Mail Motor Liner Asturias. A striking tribute to the device comes from the navigating officer of the cruiser Australia. Referring especially to the navigation in the vicinity of Halifax and the St. Lawrence, he said that echo sounding had proved of tho utmost use, adding 25 per cent, to the ship's safety in thick weather in gilrtage watery
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 58, 12 March 1929, Page 11
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148ECHO SOUNDING Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 58, 12 March 1929, Page 11
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