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SCHOONER ASKS ITS WAY ACROSS THE OCEAN.

It is easy enough for a person t( find his way across a continent b] asking the way of the occasions passer-by, but it would hardly b« considered safe or even possible fo a. vessel to make a long voyage bj the same system. But so travellec are the ocean lanes that this ha: been accomplished in some instances Recently the French liner, "La Savoie," two days out of Havre, was called upon by a sailing ship, ho;in( east, to give her longitude. Ii other words the schooner wanted t( know just how near to the coast o Europe she had arrived, and wba' time of day it was. It was learne< that the skipper had died, and n< other member of the crew was abb to make observations with the sex. tant. The officers of the liner gave the sailing ship the desired information, the international code of signals being employed to zak for anc to furnish it. Except in cases o' dire distress, like that of the lost schooner in this case, to bother cliner in such fashion would be as impertinent as it would be on shore for a person to stop an express trair to ask how. far it was to the nex< town.

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King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 472, 8 June 1912, Page 7

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SCHOONER ASKS ITS WAY ACROSS THE OCEAN. King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 472, 8 June 1912, Page 7

SCHOONER ASKS ITS WAY ACROSS THE OCEAN. King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 472, 8 June 1912, Page 7

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