[Milsurplus] Gibson Girl ( Milsurplus Digest, Vol 138, Issue 14 )

[Richard]

Somewhere - I have seen pictures of a lifeboat with radio built-in. It 
seems logical, which is why they don't do it anymore.

Richard, AA1P

>
>
> MANY years ago, I recall reading another Pacific sea battles account. 
> Survivors of some sinking were in a lifeboat, I think - not  a raft - 
> and the account said
> with their radio they not only were able to send but were able to hear 
> one of their ships in communications with elsewhere. This has puzzled 
> me for years;
> the only candidate radio I can think of is the TBX, unless it was one 
> of those larger RMCA units with LF receiver-transmitter. I don't think 
> I want to try to look
> thru every war book I've read since the 1970s and maybe the clock will 
> run out without me ever finding this again. Still, it really puzzles 
> me, and I'd sure like
> to read that passage again.
> -Hue