NEW SPEED BOAT.
Soviet Craft Built Of Plastic
Material.
BLACK SEA FLIGHT SERVICES. Independent Cable Service. (Received 0.30 a.m.) ' LONDON, June 25. "Reynold's Weekly News" says that a giant super-speed boat, built of new plastic material, carrying 125 passengers and a crew of 12, is now flying of 50 miles an liour, is now flying between Black Sea ports. It is the result of prolonged experiments by the Soviet shipbuilding and motor industries. The craft is known as a "sea glider." The boat resembles a gigantic flatfish, placed on top of two torpeiJo-shaped floats.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 148, 26 June 1939, Page 7
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94NEW SPEED BOAT. Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 148, 26 June 1939, Page 7
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