THE WEEK AT COWES.
ROYAL COMPETITORS
THE METEOR AND BRITANNIA
|By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press Association.] (Received 9 a.m.) London, August 4. The Cowes week opened to-daj. The Kaiser's yacht, Meteor, with Prince Henry of Prussia on bord, is competing. The King's Britannia won the Gold Cup.
WATERPLANIXG EVOLUTIONS (Received 9.0 a.m.; London, August 4.
G. Harvey Hawker, an Australian, flying in a Sopwith waterplane, greeted their Majesties when they arrived at Cowes in the royal yacht. The King, watching the evolutions through a telescope, called the Queen and a Princess to join him on the bridge. Hawker twice alighted on the water, rose easily, and performed several air tricks, including a.' final curtesy. Then he led the Royal procession into the Roads.
The Admiralty has since acquired tlio waterplane.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 77, 5 August 1913, Page 5
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130THE WEEK AT COWES. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 77, 5 August 1913, Page 5
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