DISTRESS SIGNALS.
■ ♦ When a vessel meets with trouble on the high seas, the business is urgent. There is no back door to sneak out of on a sinking ship, and so it is of the utmost rarity, except in fiction, for a vessel's signals for assistance to be ignored. The best known of all signals is the "minute gun," but there are several others, all of which are fully understood ■: and recognised. Rockets
at a time at short on board, as if barrel, are mdi wanted. If flags signal is the code is just posimay be too
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ROTWKG19110823.2.34
Bibliographic details
Rodney and Otamatea Times, Waitemata and Kaipara Gazette, 23 August 1911, Page 7
Word Count
97DISTRESS SIGNALS. Rodney and Otamatea Times, Waitemata and Kaipara Gazette, 23 August 1911, Page 7
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Rodney and Otamatea Times, Waitemata and Kaipara Gazette. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.