Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 156, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1912 — Saving Life at Sea. [ARTICLE]

Saving Life at Sea.

A safety device which has given excellent satisfaction on modern passenger vessels is one for releasing life rings fore and aft, both on the port and starboard side oc the vessel as soon aa the news, “man overboard,” reaches the bridge either by "wig wag" or the shin’s telephone. The officer on duty there gives one turn of a valve and the life rings are automatically released. After they have all reached the witer a' fed electric light flashes up at the top of the bridge apparatus, showing Ue officer that the mechanism has performed its duty. ' ’’