8 V^lUAy'E, Search-Lig/its and t/ie ''■Titanic''' Disaster. 



and exacting, for good or for evil, as the physical forces. 

 And " that which men sow that also will they reap." 



Addendum. 



Since the paragraph (page 6) was written on the 

 proposed installation of search-lights on Canadian North 

 Atlantic mail steamers, the " Royal George," with nine 

 hundred passengers on board, ran on the rocks while 

 passing through a narrow channel in the St. Lawrence 

 river, 12 miles below Quebec. . The accident occurred 

 late in the afternoon of November 6th, and the captain 

 was maintaining full speed in order to arrive at Quebec 

 before darkness set in, as passengers were not allowed by 

 the port authorities to land at night. 



Passengers declared that there was no fog on the 

 river, and were at a loss to understand the cause of the 

 accident. Most of them were rescued with some difficulty 

 up to midin'ght, and the remainder next da}', without any 

 loss of life. 



The accident to the " Royal George " is now brought 

 forward as showing the value of search-lights in the 

 landing of passengers arriving at their destination during 

 the night, without the necessity of laying up until next 

 day as formerly in the instance of ships passing through 

 the Suez Canal. 



The utility of the electric light projector is much 

 enhanced by the diverging lens : an adjunct for spreading 

 out the beam of light horizontally {in azimutJi) and light- 

 ing up objects at short range. This improvement was 

 devised by me in 1874, at the official request of the 

 Admiralty, and has long been established in the Royal 

 Navy, as will be seen (ready for use) in front of the pro- 

 jector in the Plate. 



