SEGRAVE AT MIAMI
m HEW CRAFT MISS ENGLAND DESCRIBED (British Official Wireless.) I‘reM Association —By Telegraph—Copyright RUGBY, March 18. Major Segrave has reached Miami (Florida), where, in his motor boat Miss England, ho will shortly attack the water sped record of 92.8 miles an hour which was established at Detroit last year by Gar Wood. Major Segrave’s craft is fitted with a 900 horse-power Napier Lion twelvecylinder aeroplane engine of the pattern with which he recently established the new land speed record in his Golden Arrow car. The boat measures 26ft, and is 7ft Sin in the beam, and weighs, exclusive of the engine, only I,ooolb. , Dual rudders are fitted —one forward and one aft. These are connected and similarly operated by a single movement of the steering wheel, this system enabling the boat to be turned at high speeds much more quickly than is possible with an ordinary rudder.
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Evening Star, Issue 20129, 20 March 1929, Page 5
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150SEGRAVE AT MIAMI Evening Star, Issue 20129, 20 March 1929, Page 5
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