A QUEER CRAFT.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 600, 31 August 1909, Page 4

A QUEER CRAFT.

THE FISHER LIFEBOAT ON'A CRUISE,' Under, the curious gaze of a crowd o! spectators,.; ft party of ladies and, gontlomen at ttio invitation of the inventor, slipped aboard /the Fisher lifeboat at the Glasgow , Wharf yesterday afternoon, and disappeared through the small portholo into the iniier shell of the ingenious craft, the main fea-, ture& of which, were fully described in Tee Dominion some timo ago. There: were four ladies in the party, i . According to ; anarrative supplied by three of 1 the- adventurous gentlemen who ; went down to the sea in too ."Fisher" boat;.the cruise in\the harbour was a success. Nobody was\ sea-sick, there was plenty of air in the interior of the vessel,' and the motion was described as most pleasurable. The only alarming • incident which occurred, . said they, lyas the sudden and quite; unexpcotcti disappearance overboard of an enterprising photographer, who had clamberod outside, to render some assistance with- a .little' inanoeuvro w-hicli was being carried out to "tost the enft. He got very wot. After a crtiise of about two hours, tho boat waa propelled in the direction of ; the boatsheds at Te Aro, and tfro'party landed nona the worse, we are told, for their novel trip. The names of the passengers, in' ! addition to tho inventor and the photographor, were as follow:—Miss B. Burgess, Miss G. Lingard, Mrs/ Fisher) Miss Fisher,, and Mesßri F. BeII,TEL Burgess, M. Burgoss, H. Walker, and S. Jones. • , v • ,