OCEAN TELEPHONY
LINER IN MID-ATLANTIC
MAJESTIC RINGS UP LONDON
(Received 17th February, 3 p.m.) LONDON, 16 k th February. Kinging up the White Star Line's London ofiico "with as little trouble as transmitting routine instructions to a ship's engine room" Commander Vaughan, the Majestic's Assistant Commander in Mid-Atlantic, bound for America, inaugurated the first public ocean telephony service between the liner and Great Britain. Tho service is at present restricted to calls by the originating liner, but the PostmasterGeneral hopes to extend it next voyage to calls originating from the shore. The service will be available to all ships on the North Atlantic route fitted with the necessary type of wireless telephone apparatus.
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 40, 17 February 1930, Page 10
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113OCEAN TELEPHONY Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 40, 17 February 1930, Page 10
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