MYSTERY SPEED BOAT
NEW MISS ENGLAND HAS UNKNOWN PACE ELABORATE SAFETY PLANS United P.A.—By Telegraph—Copyright Reed. 9.5 a.m. LONDON, Monday. Lifebelts reinforced with steel strips will be worn by Sir Henry Segrave and his mechanics during an attempt on the water speed record on Lake Windermere in Lord Wakefield’s 4,000 h.p. motor-boat, Miss England 11., which is to be launched on June 1. If they are thrown out while travelling at 100 miles an hour, the water will be as hard as a rock. The steel coats, therefore, will act as springs and take the first shock, whereas with cork belts they probably would break every bone in their bodies. The propeller is only 15 inches in diameter, so the engineer has only a vague knowledge of what will happen when the 4,000 horse-power is released.
The designer allows for 12,500 revolutions a minute, compared with 6,800 revolutions of Miss England I. The boat weighs 4J tons and is built of wood, steel and aluminium. After the tests at Lake Windermere, it will be taken to the United States in the hope of wresting Gar Wood’s record from America.
Gar Wood, the American speed-boat racer, holds the world’s record of 92.25 miles an hour, established by his boat Miss America.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 964, 6 May 1930, Page 9
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210MYSTERY SPEED BOAT Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 964, 6 May 1930, Page 9
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