ACROSS THE ATLANTIC IN A COCKLESHELL

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 7, 2 September 1927, Unnumbered Page

ACROSS THE ATLANTIC IN A COCKLESHELL

FAMOUS FEAT OF 56 YEARS AGO TO BE TOLD FROM 3YA

When Captain Hayter and his mate were drifting slowly over the Atlantic in their 1} ton boat, a prey to wind and tide for 92 days, Captain Hayter little thought then-fifty-six years ago -that there would come a time when airmen would fly across like birds, and that he would be telling the people ot a new generation by means of the most wonderful discovery of the age, radio, of his wanderings half a century previously.

Deeds ot bravery, like other things, are judged by the standard of the time Recently the men who flew across the Atlantic Ocean were acclaimed as heroes. They were the first men to succeed in overcoming the risks inseparable trom such an undertaking. But how does their bravery compare with that of men

who, in a cockleshcll of a boat, braved the ‘Roaring Forties’? and crossed and recrossed the Atlantic? Such a_ feat was accomplished in 1871. It is a long way to go back--fifty-six years-but BYA has fonnd one of the two men who caused the sensation in 1871, and he will tell on the radio his recollections. The "ancient mariner’? is Captain Hayter, of Redcliffs, Sumner, where, by the way, he first saw the light of

[day #5 years ago, the first white boy to be born there, It has been only after much persuasion that the old seaman has consented to tell of a feat unknown to the present generation, and long forgotten by old people who ever knew about it. The address is to be given on Wednesday, Scptember 7.