INVENTION FOE DETACHING SHIPS’ BOATS AT SEA.
Among the numerous life-saving appliances being exhibited at the Fisheries Exhibition is a system for releasing ships’s boats, invented by Mr. Leslie Evelyn Lieardet, jun,, of Fenchurch Street, London. Considering the numerous shipwrecks, collisions, and casualties at sea, much importance may be attached to the safe lowering and detachment oi boats, especially when time is an object. Mr. Liardet’s invention consists of a pair of slotted automatic tumbling-hooks, the ends of which are housed into pivoted guards in order to prevent accidental unhooking whilst the boat is being lowered or hanging from the davits. As soon as the boat reaches the water, and the releasing-line is let go, the hooks open simultaneously, thereby ensuring a safe, automatic, and immediate detachment from the ship, and so rendering it impossible for one end of the line to become unhooked if struck by a sea whilst being lowered or hanging from the davits under any circumstances. We hear that a steamboat company have offered Mr. Liardet a boat to be fitted with his gear in order to test its efficiency.
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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 35, 9 January 1884, Page 3
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184INVENTION FOE DETACHING SHIPS’ BOATS AT SEA. Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 35, 9 January 1884, Page 3
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