ARCTIC WHALING
GERMAN SHIP GOING SOUTH.
jE OF RADIO BEACONS.
..Received This Day, 11.40 a.mj LONDON, October 30
he German whale factory ship Uni-
'.- .s, of 21,840 tons, the largest of her ..and in the world, has left Southampton for the Antarctic as the mother ship of ten vessels. The “Daily Telegraph" states an innovation on the Antarctic whaling grounds introduced by the Unitas will be the attachment to the cargase of each dead whale of an automatic radio beacon, emitting periodic signals, indicating the whereabouts of the carcase in bad weather.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 31 October 1938, Page 6
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