Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1876 — Across the Ocean In a Dory. [ARTICLE]

Across the Ocean In a Dory.

Mr. Alfred Johnsen will start from this harbor to-morrow or next day for a trip to Liverpool, England, in a center-board dory. The doiy has been built expressly for this trip by Messrs. Higgins <fc Gifford, of this city, and has attracted the attention of hundreds of persons who have visited their premises the present week. It is built of pine and extra timbered with oak, is sixteen feet in length on the hot-, -tom and twenty on top, five and half feet in width and two and a half in .depth. She is decked over, with the exception of standing room and a hatchway, has three water-tight compartments, and the water *and provisions for a cruise of ninety days will be carried in quarter-barrels and tin cans. Sheds provided with a piast and majnsail, two jibs and square-sail. His accommodations for sleeping are in the hatchway, and the dory is provided with drag to be uied in a gale. Mr. Johnsen is one of our fishermen, and is perfectly confident that he will make the trip In safety, and will occasionally, when not having spoken any vessel, throw over a bottle securely sealed, giving his experience and whereabouts.— Gloucester (Mass.) Dispatch , June 5. The man who volunteers to pay bor rowea money acts as a surprise party