| Show LESSENING RISKS TO LIFE automatic III illumination of L lifeboat Ife boats aare when they are launched from ship li Is tested an invention for lessening risks to life at sea by the automatic ii illumination of lifeboats when they are launched from a ships side has just been tested by british board of trade officials the inventors tire are two partners in the firm of T blair co snips ships store merchants in east london by their device two wo small electric lamps are W switch it clied edon on by contact established from a float contained in a tube fixed to the stirn sternpost post of the lifeboat the float Is forced for up the tube by water when the boat la Is launched storage batteries capable of giving twenty tour four hours continuous light to the lamps are carried carrie an on board baard of trade regulations every saws has to carry an oil lamo lami mhd and a dozen dozea blied bocce of matches in a sealed watertight un tin tie the inventors of the new device claim that it will eliminate much of t the risk of lift lifeboats boats being run down |
