SPEED-BOAT RECORD
SIR H. SEGRAVE’S NEXT TASK.
[BY CABLE—PRESS ASSN.—COPYRIGHT.]
(Recd. May 6, 10 aim.) LONDON, May 5. Lifebelts, reinforced with steel strips, will be worn by Sir H. Segrave and his mechanics, during the attemptat the water-speed record on Lake Windermere, in Lord Wakefield’s 4000 horse-power motor boat “Miss England the Second,” which will be launched on June 1. If they are thrown out when 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, the men would probably 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 4000 horse-power is released. The designer allows for 12,500 revolutions per minute, compared with 6.800 revolutions of “Miss England the First.” The new boat weighs for and a-half tons, and is built of wood, steel and aluminium. After the tests at Windermere, she will be taken to the United States, in hope of wresting Gar Wood’s record from America.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 6 May 1930, Page 6
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