WIRELESS GLIDE AT SEA.
A STORY OF THE WAR. Splendid progress of direction-find-ul o by wireless in navigating both sea and air was described the other day by Dr. J. Robinson, the head of the Royal Aircraft Establishment at Farnborough. Many more wireless stations are likely to be erected round the coast, from the signals of which ships ami aeroplanes will be able to- get their bearings, and there will be fewer cases of ships being “lost without trace.” An interesting was told by Dr. Robnson of how the German submarines made use of our own direc-tion-finding stations during the war. The enemy submarines were fitted with wireless to, communicate with thenbases, and whenever they sent a wireless message our stations immediately discovered their position and flashed it to the fleets.® It often happened that a submarine did not quite know where it was, and to find out- the Germans sent any sort of message, and waited. Our direction-finding stations heard the message, discovered its position, and immediately sent it out, so that the submarine, listening-in, knew where it was, took its bearings, and ran away.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 25 October 1924, Page 3
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