OCEAN TRIP IN DINGHY.
The death has occurred at Hull of Captain Henry Norman, a local shipmaster, who created a world-wide sensation about a Quarter of a century ago by crossing the Atlantic from liow York to London in a cockleshell bor., only 16ft long, for a wager. He -vas given a great reception on entering tho Thames. Captain Norman afterwards recrossed tho Atlantic in tho same cockleshell boat from London to New York.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17145, 26 April 1919, Page 2 (Supplement)
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74OCEAN TRIP IN DINGHY. New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17145, 26 April 1919, Page 2 (Supplement)
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