NEW LIFEBOAT
GAN RIGHT ITSELF IF CAPSIZED (British Official Wireless.) Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. RUGBY, January 20. (Receiver! January 21, at 11.30 a.m.) A motor lifeboat capable of righting itself m four seconds if holed and capsized, was formally handed over to the Royal National Lifeboat Institution on the Thames. It will later be shipped to the cast coast of Scotland, where it will bo stationed. In rough weather the boat can accommodate thirty people. If the sea breaks on board it can free itself in twelve seconds.
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Evening Star, Issue 21006, 21 January 1932, Page 9
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87NEW LIFEBOAT Evening Star, Issue 21006, 21 January 1932, Page 9
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