SUBMARINE BELLS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7110, 23 April 1910, Page 2

SUBMARINE BELLS.

The use of submarine bells for the purpose of warning vessels of the proximity of danger is rapidly extending. There are now in operation no lo:-s tluui 109 such installations. The Spanish Government lias recently placed one at Tarifa Point, in the Straits of Gibraltar, whilst the Com mi.sAoncrs of the Irisn Lights have fitted them to the Kish and Coningi>eg Lightveisels. Another has been placed on the South Stack, near Holyhead. The number of vessels equip- , ped with apparatus for receiving tlie signal now totals something over sa(), (says B. W. G. in “The Navy”).- Nearly all the important Atlantic liners are included in the list. The managers of the Cairn Line have begun fitting their tteol with installations, and the Cervona and their new large passenger steamer, the Tortonn, just completed by Messrs Swan, Hunter, and AVigham Richardson, Ltd., liave already been fitted up. To cros-s----channel steamers which have to endeavour to keep time in foggy weather the , assistance •.of the submarine bell is especially ..valuable, and accordingly the Submarine Signal Company, of New Bead .street, E.C., has recently equipped the fleets of the London and North AVcHern Railway Company and the City of Dublin Steam Packet Company plying between Holyhead and the LiiVey, and the Great Eastern Railway Company on its Harwich route.