ATLANTIC CROSSING
A POWERFUL MTOB §§AT FiEMcuawM’s mnm®z Press Aeaociatiom—By Telegraph—GopyrigM. PARIS, June 15. M. Ettoirc Bugatti, the racing motor designer, is constructing a super-motor boat, with which ho will attempt to make a voyage from Brest to New York in forty-eight hours. The boat is shaped like a submarine, and is fitted with eight petrol engines of a new type totalling 3,400 h.p. it will be 120 ft long and 7ft wide. Its maximum speed will bo eighty-seven, miles «vn'hour. If the weather is calm it can be navigated from the bridge; but otherwise it can bo sealed up like a submarine, and steered means of a periscope. The crew will number eight.—Sydnoy 1 Sun ’ Cable.
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Evening Star, Issue 19584, 16 June 1927, Page 5
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117ATLANTIC CROSSING Evening Star, Issue 19584, 16 June 1927, Page 5
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