NOVEL EMBARKATION.

Colonist, Volume LIV, Issue 13479, 26 July 1912, Page 7

NOVEL EMBARKATION.

■The-novel feat of embarking a passenger on board a steamship at sea from aiv aeroplane Was performed at tho beginning of last month at New York by Mr. Frank T. Coffyn. The passenger was Mr. A. C. Wallace, a photographer on the staff of Mr. Hearst's newspaper "The American." Rising from the waters of the Hudson near the battery in one of the Wright hydro-aeroplanes, Mi- Coffyn and Mr. Wallace flew at a great height down the day in the direction of tho smoke from the steamer Ancona, bound for Naples. The aeroplane caught the liner opposite Tomkinsville, Staten Island, and circled it. The liner then stopped, and Mr Coffyn brought the aeroplane to the water some thirty feet behind the steamer's stern. Tho aeroplane was carried on by its own momentum until the waves brought it to a standstill opposite the Ancona's gangway. A boat was lowered, and to the strains of the band the photographer was triumphantly brought aboard the liner. He deliw ered a message to the captain and returned ashore in a tug.