WIRELESS DIRECTION-FINDER
ITS VALUE IN SAVING LIFE AT SEA. Mr. Godfrey Isaacs, presiding at a meeting of the Marconi International Marine Communication Company in London, said that tho range of a ship’s wireless telegraphy installation had been increased under normal conditions to between 2000 and 3000 miles, and thus a ship crossing the Atlantic was new able to keep in direct communication with one or other of the coasts during the whole voyage. Wireless telephony was destined to play an important part on ships at sea, and the great value of the wireless direction finder had recently been demonstrated very emphatically. The Norwegian steamer Ontaneda was off Newfoundland, and giving her position by dead reckoning was ninety miles out in her calculations. The only ship which was able to discover her correct position was the Fnnad Head by means of tho Alarcon! direction finder, and those on board the Ontaneda owed their lives to this fact.
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Dominion, Volume 15, Issue 26, 25 October 1921, Page 5
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156WIRELESS DIRECTION-FINDER Dominion, Volume 15, Issue 26, 25 October 1921, Page 5
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