NEW LIFEBOAT
FOR CHANNEL SERVICE. FAST AND ROOMY VESSEL. . (British Official Wireless.) (United Press Association.) ißy Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) RUGBY, April 25. (Received April 26, at 7 p.m.) A new type of fast motor ...cheat, capable of a speed of 17 or 18 knots, for use in the English Channel, is announced by the Royal National Lifeboat - Institution. The lifeboat will cost between £17,000 and £IB,OOO, and will be stationed at Dover, The object of the institution is to provide a life-saving vessel fast enough to go to the assistance of any aeroplane forced down in the Channel, The new boat will be 64 feet by 14 feet. She will have two cabins with room for about 5Q people. Whereas most of the powerful lifeboats at present have two 80-hbrsepower engines, this new type will have two engines of 376 horsepower each. She will also be fitted with wireless telephony, enabling her to take and send messages over a distance of 50 miles. Four shipping companies have responded to the appeal made by the Prince of Wales in his presidential address at the last annual meeting of the institution that they should provide lifeboats.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20702, 27 April 1929, Page 13
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193NEW LIFEBOAT Otago Daily Times, Issue 20702, 27 April 1929, Page 13
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