MOTOR BOAT SPEEDING

Northern Advocate, 6 May 1930, Page 5

MOTOR BOAT SPEEDING

SEGRAVE SEEKS RECORD

CRAFT OP 4000 HORSE-POWER.

SPECIAL LIFEBELTS DESIGNED.

(United Press Association —By Electrlo Telegraph—Copyright.) (Received 11.2 a.m.) LONDON, May 5.

Lifebelts reinforced with steel strips will be worn by Sir Henry Segravo and his machinist during an attempt at the water speed record on Lake Windermere in Lord Wakefield’s 4000 horsepower motor boat, Miss England the Second, which will be launched on June 1.

If they are throwui out when travelling iat 100 miles per 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 bolts the men would probably break every bone in their bodies.

The propeller is only 15-inehos in diameter, so that only the engineer has 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 the 6800 revolutions of Miss England the First.

The new boat weighs 41 tons and is built of wood, steel and aluminium.

After tests at Lake Windermere she will be taken to the United States, in the hope of wresting Gar Wood’s record from America.