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STEERED AUTOMATICALLY. Automatic steering devices have been greatly improved upon in overseas ship building centres. The Cunard liner Berengaria has now been fitted with a complete Sperry gyrocompass system. The apparatus consists of the master compass—which was been installed in a small compartment in the wheelhouse—and four repeaters, also a 30-day course recorder, all of which are situated on the bridge. Another repeater has been installed in the wireless room, and operates in conjunction with the Marconi direction finder. The equipment also includes the latest auxiliary to the gyro-compass the Sperry gyro-pilot '—and consequently the Refrengaria has the distinction of being the greatest British ship to be steered auto•matically.
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Thames Star, Volume LVII, Issue 16212, 29 September 1924, Page 7
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