SINKING SIGNALS.
NEW BRITISH DEVICE. LOCATING LOST "SUBS. ’ LONDON, Dec. 23. The “Daily Mail” says that the sinking? of the United Stales subn-ainio X 4 increases interest in the ILitisii Admiralty’s tests of a signalling novice. designed promptly to locate sunken submarines, and • hue assisting in the chances of rescue. The British invention is 'imperative normally. but in t: e event tl a compartment being flooded, it automatical! v emits sound signals, which can he hoard under the water for flic miles. The sounds continue lor 30 hours, enabling surface craft, using hvdronhones, to locate the source by '•ross-bearings, on which divers would be sent down.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 7 January 1928, Page 5
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