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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 detailing the crash of the 'Miss England' speedboat on Windermere.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 174\5\  img077
Date  12th July 1930 guessed
  
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The capsize of Miss Eng-land II on Windermere on June thirteen can be written down to mischance. It was given in evid-ence at the coroner's inquiry at Hawkshead on Saturday that Sir Henry Segrave satisfied himself that every possible precaution had been taken to clear the course of his speed boat of obstruction. Hundreds saw Miss England flash up and down the course twice at great speed and without encount-ering obstacle or mishap in any shape or form. The official time-keepers afterwards recorded that the mean speed of Miss England on those two trips was the great-est ever attained by any vessel moving on the surface of the waters. Then followed the third dash along the course and the catastrophe at a moment when competent witnesses assert that the boat's rate of progress ex-ceeded anything she had hitherto accomplished.

As the boat turned turtle and lay keel uppermost those around perceived that a portion of the port side step had been torn away leaving splintered wood at the rear end of the step. After Miss Eng-land had gone to the bottom of the lake a portion of the broken step was recovered. An expert witness explained to the jury that from the shape of the broken step and the nature of the fractures he formed the opinion that the step must have struck something in the lake. Water would then enter the hollow part of the step and its pressure at the high speed of the boat would have a tendency to tear the step away from its fix-
  
  


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