SEA SPEEDING
MOTOR-BOAT FOR ATLANTIC CROSSING. FORTY-EIGHT HOUR TRIP DESIGNED. (Rec. 10.45 p.m.) Paris, June 15. Ettoire Bugatti, the racing motor designer is constructing a super motor-boat with which he will attempt to make a voyage from Brest to New York in forty-eight hours. The boat is shaped like a submarine, and fitted with eight petrol engines of a new type, totalling 2400 horsepower. It will be 120 feet long, seven feet wide and its maximum speed will be eighty-seven miles per hour. If calm it will be navigated from the bridge but otherwise it will be sealed up like a submarine and will be steered by means of a periscope. The crew will number eight —A. and N.Z.
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Southland Times, Issue 20205, 16 June 1927, Page 7
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119SEA SPEEDING Southland Times, Issue 20205, 16 June 1927, Page 7
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