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LAUNCHING BY RADIO ELECTRICAL IMPULSE FROM BRISBANE LONDON, August 27. The Duke of Gloucester, while attending the returned soldiers’ concert at Brisbane, will launch by wireless the Orient Line’s new steamer Orion at Vickers, Armstrong’s yard at Barrow-in-Furness. The launching will take place at .11 a.rn. Greenwich time on December 7, corresponding to 9 p.m. Brisbane time the same day. Absolute precision in the timing arrangements is necessary because of the tides of Barrow, and the wireless telephone will be used to ensure this. The hour of launching, which is governed by the tide, will not be suitable for the wireless reproduction of the human voice from Brisbane, but an electrical impulse will be transmitted from Australia to launch the ship, after which a signal will go from Barrow to Brisbane indicating that the vessel has taken the water. This is believed to be the first occasion on which a British ship has been launched by wireless from the Antipodes, although General Hertzog, the South African Prime Minister, by pressing a knob at Pretoria on June 16, launched a Dutch liner at Amsterdam.
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Evening Star, Issue 21825, 14 September 1934, Page 9
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185NEW LINER Evening Star, Issue 21825, 14 September 1934, Page 9
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