THE AUTOMATIC PILOT.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18232, 17 November 1924, Page 15

THE AUTOMATIC PILOT.

'fle Berengaria, on -which tho Prince of Wales travelled to America, j, one of the largest boats fitted with ife jotoiratio quartermaster or gyrofllot (says the "Morning Post"). *i» s y stem •P« sctßC « n y ftiinates tie errors common to Sn jndgment m the steering of a .ST and one© the course is neb—--32, is effected bv turning a. small %A to the desired degree—the mas&VnKompa£B may be considered «in charge of the ship, though there rfuhrays a Mm at *" e whcel *? deal «fth emergency conditions. It is sella however, that he is more than tta&n onlooker of a wheel that in a j&W&y uncanny manner turns itself , u required extent, and thus comfor the effect of both wind fi| »STes as they tend to deflect tho '#p from her course. iKrae secret of the control -is confajjsal in the master compass, which ,BK be placed in any part of the ship, Si operates an electrical circuit when-,, mt tho bow deviates from the appnted; route. The rudder, obedient Srthe compaas, corrects tha deviation, tod, having done so, returns to normal. The master compass, apart from peering the vessel, operates "repeater (jompuses" on" the bridge or elsewhere, ted atthe some time makes a permancni record on a moving chart "of each (fcmnon of the ship,. whether under Jwtonatic or human control. \ r ; [ ' I