1 DECEMBER 1928, Page 18

[To the Editor of the SPEcr.vroa.]

SIR,—May I venture to suggest that, if every passenger vessel were compelled to carry some very powerful rockets, the S.O.S. signal would have a useful ally for indicating the exact locality ? A rocket capable of rising one thousand five hundred feet or more, and then exploding, would be visible over many hundred square miles, and audible over a great pert of that area.

I may add that, while I have spent in the aggregate many months at sea as a passenger, I never saw one single life-boat drill until after the outbreak of the war. Further, not one passenger in ten knows how to fit on a am, Sir, &c., Elstowe, Jenner Road, Guildford.

J. W. MEARES,