WIRELESS ON SHIPS

Evening Post, Volume CCX, Issue 145, 22 June 1933, Page 10

WIRELESS ON SHIPS

(To the Editor.) ' 'Sir,—l ask for space in your paper to try and do something towards making the lives of many of our seamen safer. In these daj's of' wireless, does it not .seem .wrong that so many of our smaller coastal ships aie'without this necessity? Only last week we read of a small vessel having had her steeijng gear carried away during the height of the south-easterly gale. This little vessel wasp fit the mercy of the elements for a couple of hours while temporary repairs were effected. She was lucky, and reached her destination -safely, but anything might have happened, and being without the boon of wireless slie would not have, been able to send for help, and many Valuable lives might have been lost. ' I thought this an opportune time to send out my appeal for those in peril on the sea. Could not the Marine Department do something in this vital matter .and so>safeguard the lives of the men who have to go to sea for a living, and also relieve the strain and anxiety of those who watch and wait at home.— I am, etc., NANCY LEE. [The regulations state .that wireless must be carried on (1) ships over.. 1600 tons gross registered tonnage; (2) ships carrying more than twelve passengers; and (3) ships with more than nineteen persons on board, including passengers and crew. Representations have been made from time to time to have the use of wireless made compulsory on the ships not included in the above three classes, but so far without success.]