SAFETY AT SEA
PATENT LIFEBOAT APPLIANCE. London, January 25. After a display of great patience it seems art if Captain F. F. Lowndes is coming into his own. It is several years since he invented what is known as the Ixiwndes lifeboat Safety Appliance, a device by means of which people thrown out of a capsized lifeboat can hold on to the keel with a degree of comfort, or turn the boat right side up again. The need for this appliance is generally recognised, but the Board of Trade have not made it compulsory for the shipping companies to have it installed. In spite of this fact twenty-two companies have now had the device fixed to their lifeboats. The latest company to take the matter up is the Cunard Line, and this would seem to be the turning point in Captain Lowndes’s campaign. Apart from the fact that it is a commercial undertaking, the general adoption of the patent means the saving of many lives in every wreck in the future. The Cunard, like other lines, is taking the matter up gradually. The first order is for three boats each on the Berengaria, the Acquitania, and the Mauretania. The Booth Line is also having the boats of two ships fitted, and the Great Western Railway is having four of their ships fitted.
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Southland Times, Issue 20446, 26 March 1928, Page 7
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222SAFETY AT SEA Southland Times, Issue 20446, 26 March 1928, Page 7
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