S.O.S. SIGNAL
SOUNDED BY PRESSING BUTTON. EQUIPMENT FOR LIFEBOATS. Every ship in the British merchant service must now carry an ingenious addition to its lifeboat equipment in the form of a portable wireless transmitter by which anyone can send out a radio distress signal just by pressing a button. An S.O.S. call is then radiated for two minutes over a distance of more than 200 miles, and the portable transmitter can repeat it 60 and 70 times at intervals of an hour. Long sustained signals are also given automatically so that rescuers can. take their bearing to pick up the lifeboat. The transmittei is fitted with a Morse key for a wireless operator. Although it weighs less than 501bs. the transmitter is exceptionally strong and if a ship is sinking can be thrown into the sea where it will float without damage until picked up by the lifeboat. Out of 24 entries, the device has been awarded a prize of £5O by the Council of the Royal Society of Arts, London.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 July 1942, Page 5
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