Show 11 U T H ff v aln A big ocean liners get weather reports while at sea observations flashed from sh p to ship on every portion of atlant a to aid in Com pilat on of london s daily map london in the meteorological corn cittee s annual report to the lords of the treasury issued recently reference Is made to the weather reports re by wireless telegraphy from kmer american ican liners since the commence ment frient of the year seventy eight messages were re in january in february and in march making a total for the three months of 1210 1 reports of these 67 or five per cent ar rived at the meteorological itce ith in two hours of the time at which the were taken or sufficiently early to be of service in connection a ith the weather map in current use and messages or 18 per cent of the total number arrived within 24 bours hours of the time of observations toward the close of the quarter there were however indications of a sensible reduction in the time mccu pied in the transmission of messages at present the arrangements tor for the transmission of messages by ladio te le graphy are not sufficiently developed for or messages to be transmitted direct ly from ships to shore stations from every part of the atlantic for the more western portions of the map the committee Is dependent upon the transmission of messages from ship to ship and then to the chore shore the ship carrying the mes gage page has frequently to wait some time before it comes within speaking dis tance of the shore station and arid in con sequence considerable delay occurs in the transmission the faster ships tend to become the receiving vessels for messages of all ships which they have passed en route with the result that the signal officer on hoard the ships and the staff at the office find themselves in pos session of 0 an overwhelming number of messages some of which are already too old to be of immediate utility in ec clug the accuracy or me tue t aub submission mIssion has been remarkable and the observe eions have been good many of the ships carry only aneroid barometers and in some instances it has been dim cult to bring pressure observations into correspondence with those on a neighboring ship or the shore stations this therefore says the committee remains to be done before the system of reports by radiotelegraphy radio telegraphy from the atlantic can be brought into a position to give a daily map of the ocean |