LIFE-SAVING
(British Official Wireless).
ENGLISH CHANNEL SERVICE Help For Distressed Airmen.
RUGBY. April 25. A new type of fast motor lifeboat, eapable of a speed of 17 or 18 knots, tor uwe in the English channel, is announeed by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution. The lifeboat will cost hetween £17,000 and £18.000, and will be stationed at Dover. Tlie object or tlie institution is to provide a lifesaving vessel fast cnougli to go to the assistanee of any aeroplane forced down in the Channel. The new hoat will bo 64 feet by 14 feet. She will have two cabins, with rcom for ahout 50 people. Whereas tlie most powerfnl lifehoato at present have two 80 liorse-powcr engines, this new type will have two engines of 375 horse-power eaeh. She will also be fltted with wireless telephony, cnahling her to take and send messages over a distauce of 50 miles. Four shipping eompanies have l'csponded to the appeal made by tbe Prince of AYales in his presidential address at tbe last annual meeting of tlie institution that they r«hould provide lifeboats.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 58, Issue 72, 27 April 1929, Page 5
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