The discussion was continued with considerable vigor by Messrs. H.
Fisher (vice-president), James Rigby, J. Tibbs, M. Millard, Walker, W.
Yeomans (secretary), and others. Several of these gave it as their
experience that the best castings contained the most blowholes, and Mr.
McCallem accepted the pronouncement, with some slight qualification.
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SCIENCE IN DIMINISHING CASUALTIES AT SEA.
At the recent meeting of the British Association, Don Arturo de
Marcoartu read a paper on the above subject.
He stated that he wished to draw special attention to increasing the
safety of navigation against storms, fogs, fire, and collisions with
wrecks, icebergs, or vessels, and recommending the development of
maritime telegraphy. He urged that vessels should be supplied with
apparatus to communicate with and telegraph to each other and to the
nearest coast the weather and sea passed over by them, and that reports
given by vessels should be used as "warnings" more extensively. He
wished the mid-Atlantic stations connected by telegraph for the same
purpose.
In regard to the use of oil on rough seas, he said that Dr. Badeley in
1857, Mr. John Shields five years ago at Peterhead and last year at
Folkestone, the Board of Trade in 1883, and a committee on life saving
appliances of the United States had made experiments.
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