ENGLISH SHIPPING DISASTER.
UTILITY OF WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY. (Received May 1, 1.35 a.m.) LONDON, Sunlry. A steamer during a fog collided with and greatly damaged a lightship on the Goodwin Sands. The latter utilised Signor Marconi’s wireless telegraphy and obtained help from Ramsgate. [Ramsgate is a well-known watering place on the coast of Kent, and seventytwo miles from London. The lightship of the Goodwin Sands would be distant' some seven or eight miles.]
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New Zealand Times, Volume LXIX, Issue 3728, 1 May 1899, Page 5
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72ENGLISH SHIPPING DISASTER. New Zealand Times, Volume LXIX, Issue 3728, 1 May 1899, Page 5
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