Fatal Sequel to a Woman's Pluck Miss Frances Knowles-Foster, novelist and traveller, who returned home on September 28 in a state of collapse after a thrilling voyage of 2,000 miles in the nine-ton motor yacht Enchantress, died at the Tapestry Mall, Old Windsor, on October 23, aged forty-two.
Accompanied Ly her uncle, Commander Simmonds, ed G4, Mis" Knowles-Foster navigated the yacht—a 30-year-old ex-naval Pinnace—through the Baltic and across Germany and the North Sea.
Tt was a voyage full of adventures and hairbreadth escapes, and when the craft moored at Windsor it was found that, in addition to her nerves and heart being affected. by the strain, she had travelled hundreds of miles with a torn arm muscle and a broken finger. Command Simmonds said the expedition one of the most remarkable ever undertaken by a woman, and that. her pluck cond all praise, fife of Adventure It was a love of the sea, and a wich to obtain first-hand material for a novel and travel book, that led Miss Knowles-Foster on her ad-
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