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ON July 18, Mr. Kaye Don, piloting Lord Wakefield's motor-boat Miss England III, twice broke the previous world's speed record for motor-boats. In his first attempt Mr. Don covered the measured mile in 35·4 sec. and 35·2 sec. (117·43 miles an hour), and in the second attempt his times were 34·4 sec. and 34·8 sec. (119·81 miles an hour). The previous record was set up by Mr. Garfield A. Wood, who achieved 111·71 miles an hour. Sir Henry Segrave's record on Lake Windermere when he was killed in 1930 was 98·96 miles an hour. Miss England III was designed and built by Messrs. John Thornycroft and Co., Ltd., at Hampton-on-Thames. It is a single-step vessel and is fitted with two propellers. The boat is fitted with two Schneider Trophy type supercharged Rolls-Royce engines, developing 2200 h.p. and consuming about five gallons of fuel a minute. The length of the hull of the boat is 35 ft., and the maximum beam is 9 ft. 6 in.
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New Motor-Boat Record. Nature 130, 123 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/130123c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/130123c0