Letter
IRVING, Second Officer Steamship Britannic to Mes, March 31, 1875
Liverpool, March 31, 1875.
Gentlemen: In compliance with your instructions, I have examined the fog-signals submitted to me for perusal, and think that the new signals will answer the purpose they are intended for very well, and that the interval in fog-signals marked (a) and (b) is too long, as at the speed steamers now go they might strike a sailing-ship without ever hearing their horn, which can only be heard for a short distance.
And remain, &c.,
P. J. IRVING,
Second Officer Steamship Britannic.
Second Officer Steamship Britannic.
Messrs. Ismay, Imrie & Co.
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U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian. Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the P.