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

[Richard]

More - Ships Nostalgia says some passenger ships had lifeboats with 
radio built-in.  RO's had little faith in conventional lifeboat radios, 
but they worked pretty good when tested in good weather.

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