UNSINKABLE LIFEBOAT.
TO CROSS THE ATLANTip. PROVISIONED FOR 70 DAYS. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. Received 11.20 a.m. to-day. LONDON, March 19. The Dutch unsinkable lifeboat Schuttvaer, 21 feet long, the result of 18 years’ experimentation, has left Westminster Bridge for New York, via Spain, with J. P. Schuttvaer, the 70 years old inventor, Captain Smit, and two shipmate*, aboard, who waved farewell to cheering crowds on the bridge and Embankment. The lifeboat was provisioned for 70 days, which is expected to be the full extent of the voyage.—A.P.A. and “Sun.”
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 20 March 1928, Page 9
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