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New Zealand Times, Volume XLVIII, Issue 8006, 10 February 1887, Page 4

Thb success’ of Prof. Tuck's torpedo boat Peacemaker has solved the problem of submaribe’navigatibn and encourages her inventor to believe that he can yet build large submarine steamers fitted up to cross the Straits of Dover and other tempestuous channels, thus insuring perfectly quiet passage across, as twenty feet below the surface wave motion ceases. He claims that, to avoid the horrors of seasickness, the great majority of passengers would prefer the route under water in a powerful steamer, with luxuribusly upholstered saloons-and cabins brilliantly lit with’ electric lights, to the present steamers, with the--inseparable accompaniment of seasickness.