Show I O C C K K 0 0 0 0 0 How It h Started I I I j By JEAN N NEWTON NEWTON I 0 00 K 0 00 0 K 00 0 THE LIFEBOAT IT IT MA MAY Y seem scent to travelers on great ocean liners In observing the fastened to the upper deck that thaI such small croft craft would stand slight chances ot of braving bra t the lie he open sea The fact Is however er that tha lint although It looks like ashell a ash ashell sh shell lI a lifeboat Is specially con constructed with various arlous contrivances for tor ln people from trum wrecked or Im- Im Imperiled Im Imperiled periled vessels In storms or seas when an nn ordinary open boat would be Impractical and dangerous And unless n boat Is provided with some distinctive properties such as balling self balling and self righting rl It Is not nota nota n a lifeboat In the Hie strict sense of ot th the word It If would be merely a surf surfboat boat the he name applied r to small open boats bonts that tint lint are launched from the beach to take fishermen n through h the surf The Invention and the origin of the as ns we know It today are cred credo credited Iced to an Englishman Lionel Lukin In 1785 1755 Lukin a n of ot nn an Inland town near London put afloat on 00 the Thames s a n boat bout which was the re- re result re result sult suit of ot some years cars of ot experiment with water tI tight ht compartments and other essentials of buoyancy and stability which are the tho cardinal requisites and the feature of ot the Die modern lifeboat of several se defects detects however did not succeed In bringing his Invention Into practical use It was not nol until after his d death through h Im Improvements pro on his hits product made by I expert boat bont builders of ot En English lIsh har harbor hor bor towns lowns that the middle of ot the last lost saw evolution of ot time the mod mod- modera modern ern era lifeboat And though practically every coast town In this country Is equipped with lIf lifeboats botts of ot the most approved types It from the English was Eng Eng- lish models that they were built hullt and It Is ns as a British contribution c to Ins In Invention that the lifeboat must be credited credit Copyright |