1965 Press Photo Testing Dory The Unsinkable Boat in Chichester, Sussex-Bedfont

Testing the unsinkable Dory: Eight employees of a boat-building firm of Chichester, Sussex, and two models hired for the day yesterday tested the unsinkable qualities of a six seater Dory, named after the flat-bottomed boats of Newfoundland on Bedfont lake, Middlesex. The ten people on board rocked the boat to fill it with water to prove that it wouldn't sink and it didn't. It did however, capsize, and the people aboard had to swim ashore. Mr. Edge the managing director of the shipbuilding firm looked at the £300 Dory, designed as a yacht tender or water-skiing vessel and built with a double skin of fibre glass, and said ofcourse she will capsize if so many people clamber aboard and rock her, he said. ''But you will notice she didn't sink'', he added. He was right, it didn't. Photo shows the scene aboard the Dory during the tests yesterday. Although it didn't sink the boat capsized and those aboard had to swim ashore.

Photo measures 10.25 x 8 inches.

Photo is dated 11-10-1965.

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