AUTOMATIC S.O.S.
Skipper Merely Presses Button
BOON TO SMALL SHIPS
A new invention will make it po 3 . sible for even the smallest of se a . going vessels to carry wireless equip, meut, which will be able to send out automatic S.O.S. signals in time 0 [ trouble. The Australian Navigation Department has been notified of the innovation. Had such a device been available and installed on the Annie M. Miller which foundered off Sydney Heads recently, probably a relief ship would have been able to reach her in tine and no lives would have been lost The Navigation Act requires that vessels over 1,200 tons gross shall be provided with wireless transmitter apparatus, but below that tonnage it is optional, and very few- of the smaller coasters are so equipped The reason is not so much the cost of*he apparatus as the fact that it requires a skilled (and paid) operator—that he and his gear take up as much room as four men's berths. Amalgamated Wireless has designed an automatic device. It is still secret, but it is understood that the captain of the ship has merely |n press a button or pull a switch and the instrument immediately transmit* -the name of the ship, its position, and the distress signal.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 605, 6 March 1929, Page 2
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211AUTOMATIC S.O.S. Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 605, 6 March 1929, Page 2
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