Remembering the Captain's injunction not to keep her waiting long, I drove through all the exhibition I could give and as I clambered aboard again the perspiration stood all over my forehead.

On gaining the deck, I bowed to the Queen again and was about to go forward.

The Queen stopped me and said: 'Captain Boyton, I am both delighted and astonished at your wonderful work in the water; I believe that dress will be the means of saving numbers of valuable lives.' She asked me how old I was and many other questions.

A handsome young lady who stood at her side said: 'Don't you feel very much fatigued after such an exertion and are not your clothes wet under your dress ?' 'Oh, no, Miss, not the least.' At this answer of mine a laugh went up from the royal group and I suspected that I had made some mistake.

I added.