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PORTABLE LIFEBOAT RADIO SIGNALS 60 TIMES OYER 200 MILES Every ship in the British merchant service must now carry an ingenious addition to its lifeboat equipment in tlie form of a portable Avireless transmitter by Avhieh anyone can send out a radio distress signal just by pressing a button. An S.O.S. call is then radiated for two minutes OA r er a distance of more than 200 miles, and the portable transmitter can repeat it 60 and 70 times at intervals of an hour. Long sustained signals are also given automatically so that rescuers can take their bearing to pick up the lifeboat. The transmitter is fitted Avith a Morse key for a Avireless operator. Although it Avcighs less than 501bs the transmitter is exceptionally strong and if a ship is sinking can be thrown into the sea Avhere it will lloat without damage until picked up by the lifeboat. Out of 24 entries, the device has been aAvarded a prize of £50 by the Council of the Royal Society of Arts, London.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 05, Issue 71, 29 June 1942, Page 5
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174S.O.S. Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 05, Issue 71, 29 June 1942, Page 5
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