From the Rolls-Royce experimental archive: a quarter of a million communications from Rolls-Royce, 1906 to 1960's. Documents from the Sir Henry Royce Memorial Foundation (SHRMF).
Newspaper clipping reporting on the fatal crash of the 'Miss England II' boat, resulting in the death of Sir Henry Segrave.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 174\5\ img172 | |
| Date | 14th June 1930 guessed | |
| CAUSE OF THE SEGRAVE DISASTER BRANCH WRECKS MISS ENGLAND. HYMN FOR LADY SEGRAVE IN A TOWN OF MOURNING. WIVES AND SPEED BIDS. THE disaster to Miss England II. on Lake Windermere, in which Sir Henry Segrave and "Vic" Halliwell, a mechanic, lost their lives, was probably caused, the "Sunday Chronicle" was officially informed yesterday, through the boat colliding with a floating branch of a tree. Among hundreds of telegrams of sympathy received by Lady Segrave are messages from the King and Queen and the Prince of Wales. FROM HAPPY SUCCESS TO TRAGEDY.—A memorable picture of Lady Segrave congratulating her husband after he had won the world's land speed record for Britain. | ||