BARBER’S CRAZY CRAFT
ATLANTIC TRIP ABANDONED.
LONDON, Aug. 18. Edward Tierney and Diehard Haymaiii, who had proposed crossing th© Atlantic in a craft resembling a baby submarine, have abandoned the . project after a farc-iaJ trial. A crane lifted the craft and the owner from a railway truck and dropin to the smooth water of Dover Harbour, where it promptly developed a list of 45 degrees. AVi th the windmill with which the men hoped to drive the vessel, revolving merri.lv and the propeller almost stationary, a rowing boat towpd the craft for' 100 yards. By then it was ignominiously towed back to the shore’. Tierney .says that lie had invested all his savings in the craft. He had abandoned his hairdressing business at Salford and 1 did not know what he would do. He will sell th© ship toany purchaser. He realises now that it would be suicidal to sail in it.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 5 September 1927, Page 8
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152BARBER’S CRAZY CRAFT Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 5 September 1927, Page 8
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