Electrified Cables in Ports and Channels The Admiralty are interested in bringing into greater prominence and much more extended use an ingenious device which during the war proved of considerable service to shipping, especially during fog. The device consists of the laying of electrified cables in the approaches to the: principal ports, such, for example, as Liverpool, and in channels frequented by shipping.
The idea was submitted to prac-cal test by the Admiralty at one or two of our harbours during the war, and the success which attended these experiments, made at times of extraordinary stress and difficulty, have convinced the Naval authori ies that an extension of the system for channel, port, and harbour work would constitute an effective safeguard to shipping.
Captains of vessels,.it is asserted, by this new method of guiding ships, are able to follow the cable at any speed whatever, as easily as a street car follows the rails. From the moment the ship "picks up" the outer end of the guiding cable, the man at the wheel need no longer be troubled by reefs, shallows, and currents, or even by fog.
The principle of the invention is that of the electrified cable in use in ocean telegraphy.
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