It seems like all the records and fame that the American Gar Wood was creating in the 1920’s with his four engine and twin boat propellers Miss America boats made some British guys jealous of all that. So an Englishman Lord Wakefield, Castrol Oil Company chairman decided he wanted to bring the record to England with a British boat. He funded a project that produced a new boat called the Miss England. He then hired a famous English car racing driver Sir Henry Segrave to pilot the boat. This boat did not break the speed record but with the experience gained with it they made an new and improved boat called the Miss England II. Powered by two Rolls-Royce airplane engines on Friday the 13th. June 1930 the boat broke Wood’s world speed record with a top run speed of 98.76 mph. But tragically Sir Henry and his co-driver were killed attempting to go faster on a third run that day when their boat struck an underwater object and flipped over. Maybe they should have picked another date.
Gar Wood got the record back soon after with a faster speed of 102.16mph. A month later using the salvaged and refitted Miss England II and driven by Kaye Don another famous British car driver the British broke Wood’s record again with a speed of 110.223mph. In February 1932 Wood bested that record by 1mph.
The British then designed and built a totally new boat using twin boat propellers instead of a single boat prop and named it Miss England III. This boat brought the speed record back to England once again in July 1932 with a top speed of 119.810mph. Gar Wood responded with his totally new and improved boat called the Miss America X in September 1932 recapturing the record setting the mark at 124.860mph. This proved to be the last of the competition between the two groups. The British driver Kaye Don decided not to attempt anymore record runs, Lord Wakefield did not replace him and Wood returned to running his own Business.
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