Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1914-04-02

drop life belts, ropes, food, medicine or stimuants
according to the urgency of the needs.
With all the navies working to develop means
for launching aeroplanes from batteshps and
receiving them back, it is safe to say that the
problems connected herewith will be solved very
soon. Then liners will carry aeroplanes to use for
carrying dispatches and for general pilot duties
Just as the water aeropane is wonderful aux
iliary of the navy, it is wonderful auxiliary for
ocean liners, promising to afford to passenger
carrying ships services of the highest kind
The water aeroplane is wonderfully adapted for
preventing disasters of the kind which overcame
the steamship Titanic, and in case such disasters
take place, minimize the loss of life. flying
boat on a steamer rise to investigate unseen
dangers ahead. 1t can do SO at night as well as by
using the ships searchlights the aeroplane' 9
searchlights In case of the vessel becoming dis
abed the aeroplane fly to notify other vessels,
utilizing the wireless apparatus, with which every
flying boat is being equipped in tho foreign ma
ves to notify the other steamships of the need or
of it's APPROACH.
The most appalling thing in the Titanic disaster
was that there number of steamships with
In call distance--some not as much 40 miles
away-whch the wireless telegraph did not reach
In some because 1t became disabled as the
ship sank. A flying boat could have covered the
40 miles in less than an hour, while its wireless
plant would have notified the other vessels as 1t
proceeded onward.
A flying boat on the vessels that came to the
rescue after the Titanic had sunk could have
searched the surface of the sea for survivors, its
altitude giving it range of vision of miles, and
could have found the survivors where the vessels
did not them. 1t would thus practically have
superintended the work of life saving
Each year there is long list of people who are
drowned from falling overheard from large vessels
and who cannot be rescued In time to save their
lives the boat sent to them reaching them
too late to be of avail A flying boat can be
launched and can search for the person that has
fallen overheard and can drop safety belt or land
by and pick him up much faster than the fastest
life saving boat
The sea is an unknown quantity in many re-
spects, and the biggest of steamships is very
much at its mercy, and assistance of the kind
which the flying boat affords is necessity. YES
sci at sea often meets signs of wrecks or it is
signaled by craft in distress At the present time
there is no way to investigate such things without
involving great delay putting the craft itself
In danger through taking it out of its marked
route, which is the safety zone. flying boat can
do all these things for the vessel 1t can be launch
ed with two men, one OF whom searches the sur
face of tibet sea with powerful glasses. The yes-
sci can proceed its course; the flying boat will
oyertake it after having discharged its mission.
As even special machine and the equipment
cannot cost more than $4,000, it is evident that
it is an abtVrdly cheap factor of efficiency which
every craft can afford and should have.