95.08 MILES AN HOUR
MISS BRITAIN’S HIGH SPEED.
RECORD RUN PRIOR TO FIRE.
By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.
London, September 25.
Prior to the fire which badly damaged Mr. Scott Paine’s racing motor-boat Miss Britain 111., it attained a mean speed of 35.08 miles an hour, beating Miss Betty Carstairs’ sea mile record of 86.21 and Sir Henry Segrave’s unofficial record for single-engined boats of 92.78 miles an hour.
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Taranaki Daily News, 27 September 1933, Page 9
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