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 the fatal crash of Sir Henry Segrave during a water speed record attempt on Lake Windermere.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 174\5\ img179 | |
| Date | 14th June 1930 guessed | |
| SPEED-BOAT DI CRASH AT 103 M.P.H. Mechanic and Boat at Bottom of Lake Windermere. INJURED SURVIVOR'S STORY OF LAST RUN. LADY SEGRAVE AND HER PREMONITION. RECORD BROKEN WITH SPEED OF 98.76 M.P.H. Sir Henry Segrave, who set up the world's speed record on land in the Golden Arrow, met his death yesterday on Lake Windermere after winning for Britain also the world's speed record on water. Mr. E.{Mr Elliott - Chief Engineer} Halliwell, his mechanic, also perished. His body has not yet been recovered. The engineer, Mr. J.{Mr Johnson W.M.} Willcocks, was rescued badly injured. Miss England II, Sir Henry's 4,000 horse-power motor-boat, was travelling at more than 103 miles an hour when the disaster happened. She suddenly leaped in the air, and then fell upside down in the water. Half an hour later she had sunk to the bottom of the lake nearly 200 feet below. Sir Henry suffered from shock and multiple injuries, and he died soon after 5 p.m. in the presence of Lady Segrave, who witnessed the accident. A pathetic feature of the tragedy was the dramatic dash to Windermere in an aeroplane of Sir Henry's father. Only a few minutes after he had left Stag Lane word was received there of his son's death. Sir Henry achieved his ambition. His official speed in Miss England II before the disaster was declared to have been 98.76 miles an hour. | ||