A 40ft motor boat, the smallest type used by the Admiralty for torpedo work during the war, -made.^vhat is believed to be a record passage from Holyhead tii Dublin recently, doing the full distanco of 65 miles, in 2 hours 10 mm- | iitcs. This is considerably less time than is taken by the fastest mail steamers. The boat in question, Onward IV., a Thorheycroft hydroplane, with motor 225 h.p., is the one svhicji created such interest at Monaco this year, owing to its exceptional seaworthiness and con- j sistent running.; Another landmark of hate has gone from London. Guns which had atoorf for over a contury in St. James's Square havo now been removed. J
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 16, 19 January 1924, Page 18
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