LEAGUE THAT WORKS
SAFEGUARDING LIFE AT SEA. A little white vessel nosing its way northward toward the fog-shrouded Grand Banks of Newfoundland offers a reminder of a league of nations which for a quarter of a century has functioned without a hitch, writes “Clearway” in the “Christian Science Monitor.” The vessel is under the orders of the International Conference for the Safety of Life at Sea. Carrying on from late March .to late July this vessel—a coastguard ice patrol cutter—scouts the sea in the vicinity of the Grand Banks, gathering information on the location of icebergs, broadcasting the danger zone. Born of the Titanic experience, 14 nations signed the pact in 1913-1914 which established a continuous patrol during the ice season of the North Atlantic area most endangered by bergs, with the United States undertaking the management of the enterprise and all signatories to the pact sharing the cost. Just a little white vessel tossed by the cold waves between the 55th and 43rd meridians —but a symbol of what nations might co-operatively do on a larger scale.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 June 1938, Page 11
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