Improvements in or relating to Steamships and other Ships or Vessels, for the purpose of Preventing Loss of Life and Property in the Event of the Ship or Vessel Foundering.

摘要

21,564. Harrison, E. Sept. 23. Boat and raft launching apparatus.-An independently-navigable life-raft B, which may normally serve as a torpedo boat, submarine, air-craft, or mess room according to the nature of the ship, is housed in a transverse gap formed with sloping floors a' and doors a2, a4. The raft B has rollers b, b1 for use in launching, and may have a cabin F which may telescope vertically. The raft may be mounted on a pivoted girder ; or it may be in two like portions normally united by bolts and arranged when released to enter the water one on each side of the ship.