THE NEW MAURETANIA
RADIO TELEPHONE DEVICE
ORDERS THROUGH MICROPHONE (British Official Wireless) RUGBY, Aug. 12. (Received Aug. 13, at 7 p.m.) When the new Cunard White Star liner Mauretania docks at New York at the end of the present voyage, orders will be spoken quietly from the bridge through a microphone of the new radio telephone device, and will be received by tugmasters through a loud-speaker, thus obviating the usual shouted orders. The radio telephone will be used to ascertain weather conditions when the liner is many miles off Ambrose Light vessel. Her famous predecessor of the same name was the first merchant vessel to use wireless for direction-finding, and the new Mauretania is the first to introduce radio telephony for docking and obtaining weather news. Another device used successfully is a microphone on the bridge to communicate with loud-speakers at all boat stations on the ship. It is believed that this method would greatly facilitate rescue operations in an emergency.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23886, 14 August 1939, Page 9
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