Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 December 1891 — Steel Lifeboats. [ARTICLE]

Steel Lifeboats.

The latest form of lifeboats are built of steel, and possess tho invaluable quality of being unsinKable and selfrighting. The fore a,d aft sections of the boat are constructed in the form of hollow cones, thoroughly air and water tight, and their peeul ar form Imparts immense strength and rigidity to tho whole structure. In an emergency the steel boat can bo thrown ovorboard bodily, without tiie formality and care attendant on tho use of boat-lowering gear, as, no matter lmw tho boat alights in tho water, it will ts at on an even keel and i annot possibly swamp.