Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2015 All Rights Reserved USGenNet Data Repository Please read USGenNet Copyright Statement on this page: Transcribed and submitted by Linda Talbott for the USGenNet Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ ========================================================================= USGenNet Data Repository NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization. Non-commercial organizations desiring to use this material must obtain the consent of the transcriber prior to use. Individuals desiring to use this material in their own research may do so. =========================================================================== Formatted by USGenNet Data Repository Chief Archivist, Linda Talbott All of the above information must remain when copied or downloaded. =========================================================================== The Ludington Record Thursday, February 6, 1896 Volume XXIX LIFE BOATS FOR THE LAKES ----------- TO BE BUILT FROM A MODEL SUCCESS- FULLY TESTED AT PORT HURON The life saving service has ordered twelve life boats of a novel and successful construction. The trial at Port Huron has sufficiently proven their value. The boat is thirty-four feet in length, which is seven feet longer than the old type; eight feet in breadth outside of the stern, and six feet in depth. It is built of hard wood and has a bottom of Tobin bronze. The boat is provided with a center board and water ballast and will also carry a set of masts and sails. She can carry safely fifty passengers in the roughest of weather, while the boats now in use will hold but twenty-five. The secret of its self- righting qualities is found in its heavy keel and air-tight compart- ments on the stern and bow. In case the boat should be capsized the heavy keel would tend to turn it over again, and the air cases would greatly aid in righting it. ===========================================================================