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Making Life Safe at Sea
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Seine and was sunk 15 miles off Armen Light, Island of Ushant, on May 27th.
Nor can the coroner's jury or others do more than fix the blame for the sinking of the American steamer Alaska, which ran ashore off Cape JVIendocino, \ miles from Blunt's Reef Lightship. This occurred during a heavy fog on August 6th, last year. Thirty-nine lives were lost.
The coroner's jury, after several weeks of testimony taking, recommended that more general use be made of radio compass bearings furnished by the U. S. Radio Service, and that owners of passenger vessels be required to equip their vessels with a listening device for the detection of submarine signals, and commented upon the fact that the bell on the Blunt's Reef Lightship was ringing when the Alaska sunk less than two miles away.
The Neptune Association, which is composed of JVlerchant Marine Officers, wrote the Board of Supervising Inspectors at Washington, following the sinking of the Alaska, and expressed the belief that, had the Alaska been equipped with apparatus for receiving submarine signals, the wreck would probably have been avoided. In addition to wishing to make navigation safer, the Neptune Association stated that they desired that masters be exempt
from responsibility of loss when all necessary equipment had not been provided for the proper operation of vessels.
BUT LIFE CAN BE SAFE AT SEA
REGARDLESS of the catastrophes which have occurred in the past, it is possible to reduce them greatly in the 'future, by employing the electrical aids to navigation now available.
For direction finding, and for navigation at long distances from shore, the radio compass is sufficiently accurate to guide us to a point in range of a submarine signal station.
Then, reaching the lightship by submarine signaling makes it possible to pick up a submarine cable and follow it, even in the thickest fog, directly into port.
Distances may be accurately determined by synchronous signaling, depth need no longer be a matter of guess-work, and the berg of the frozen seas can now be detected and avoided by application of the same device which tells the depth.
With these scientific advantages at our disposal, are we going to continue to have Republics and Titanics and Egypis, pointing with scorn at our civilization?
SUBMARINE BELL INSTALLATION ON OUR COASTLINES