AN UNCAPSIZEABLE LIFEBOAT. -
A NEW ZEALANDER'Sv INVENTION. (special to "tite pkess.") WELLINGTON, J«nuary 23. In the London cables of yesterday reference was made to a new type of lifeboat for ocean liners. This evidently lefers to the invention of Harry Fisher, of Wellington, ■who went Home with his patent uncapsizeable boat some months ago. A private letter :e----ceivod here from » visitor to London states: —"I went down to the London Docks and saw Fisber'e boat in the water. It appears to be a very common-sense, practicable boat, and certainly should meet the approval of the Board of Trade. It can carry double the mimber of the wooden lifeboat, protects her freight from the weather, and has a propeller geared for hand power capable of arriving her four knots an hour in smooth water.. Fisher is buey trying to get the big shipping companies to adopt the boat for paesenger linere, and deserves success. All the experts who have seen the boat are unable to find fault with the invention." ■ (
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Press, Volume L, Issue 14887, 29 January 1914, Page 8
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169AN UNCAPSIZEABLE LIFEBOAT. – Press, Volume L, Issue 14887, 29 January 1914, Page 8
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