. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . —Copyright Underwood dr UnderwoodAn automatic life-boat launching device, the invention of F. F. Pease, of the Bethlehem Ship-building Co. Here the life-boat is shown in the cradle from which it is launched. The device,by means of a one-man operated lever, throws the Ufe-boat a distance of 40 feet from the vessel,landing it on the crest of the waves with a momentum, if the ship is standing still, to carry it at therate of five knots an hour. The arm is then swung back and another boat slips automatically into place 34 Baltimore and Ohio Magazine, Novem

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. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . —Copyright Underwood dr UnderwoodAn automatic life-boat launching device, the invention of F. F. Pease, of the Bethlehem Ship-building Co. Here the life-boat is shown in the cradle from which it is launched. The device,by means of a one-man operated lever, throws the Ufe-boat a distance of 40 feet from the vessel,landing it on the crest of the waves with a momentum, if the ship is standing still, to carry it at therate of five knots an hour. The arm is then swung back and another boat slips automatically into place 34 Baltimore and Ohio Magazine, November, igzi.

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