SPEED-BOAT THRILLS.
TRIALS OF NEW CRAFT.
AMAZEMENT OF ONLOOKERS.
LONDON, July 6
Onlookers gazed in fear and amazement at the behaviour of Miss England IH-i Lord Wakefield's 5000 hqrse-power speedboat, when Kaye Don made the first trials on Loch Lomond.
The boat began to leap like a porpoise in a great halo of white spray a s soon as the throttle was opened. Kaye Don kept the wheel in a vice-like grip, and the mechanic clung to the sides to, prevent himself hurtling into the air. Owing to th© terrific buffeting, the boat .• attained a speed of only 90 miles an hour. Spectators two miles distant saw daylight between the hull and the water. The boat behaved similarly in a later test, and experts declare that the vessel is "hull"heavy.'-' Mechanics are rectifying the error.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21233, 13 July 1932, Page 9
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