AUTOMATIC STEERING
APPARATUS ON MOTOR SHIP. The first device of its kind to be fitted in a British ship, the Chance automatic steering apparatus, is the subject of experiment in the Blue Star motor-ship New Zealand Star. Unlike other automatic devices, it requires no power and is worked directly from the compass. A light beam is projected from a magnetic compass by a mirror with photo-electric cells, and an electric eye detects and corrects the slightest deviation from the set course. It is claimed that the device will steer a ship more accurately than can the most skilled helmsman, because the electric eye constantly watches the compass, and is more sensitive to any variation than is the human eye. The inventor, Mr B. Chance, is a passenger on the New Zealand Star. Experiments were carried out on the voyage from Liverpool, and will be continued on the ship’s return journey. If successful, the fitting may be adopted in other vessels of the Blue Star fleet.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 July 1938, Page 7
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165AUTOMATIC STEERING Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 July 1938, Page 7
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