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 from the 'Sunday Chronicle' detailing the salvage of a speedboat after a fatal water speed record attempt.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 174\5\ img127 | |
| Date | 29th June 1930 | |
| Newspaper Clipping: MISS [Illegible] TRAGEDY [Illegible text] on Windermere on [Illegible text] above the surface of the [Illegible text]. Secured by four steel ropes, the craft was lifted pretty a few yards at a time from its overnight resting place 40 feet below the surface. Mr. Michael Willcocks, the only survivor of the tragedy in which a new speed water record was made, was a spectator to-day when the operations began. The lake was considered to be too rough to permit the boat being towed ashore, and this will be done at the first favourable opportunity. When the water was pumped from the speedboat the first thing found was Segrave's stop watch, which was lying at the bottom of the cockpit, where it apparently had fallen when Segrave and Halliwell were flung overboard. Handwritten: Sunday Chronicle 29/6/30 | ||