Oct. 15, 1910.] 
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PIONEER CAPSIZED, SHOWING PLANES OF UNDERBODY. 
Photo from The Yachtsman. 
British Sea Mile Records. 
The annual competition for sea mile records 
of the British Motor Boat Club was held last 
month. The boats compete for a challenge 
trophy which goes to the one which does the 
fastest mean time of six runs over a measured 
sea mile. This year’s competition excited cpn- 
siderable interest, as there were several new 
boats capable of greatly increasing the speed 
attained by Baby V., the winner in 1909, and it 
was hoped and expected that the Duke of West¬ 
minster’s Pioneer would have been present, also 
Dan Hanbury’s Zigorella, but unfortunately 
these boats, which were due back from America 
at the beginning of the week, did not arrive in 
time, the issue was therefore left between Sir 
John Thornycroft’s Miranda I. and Maudslay 
Brooke’s Baby V. The latter (in charge of Mr. 
Monson, in the absence of her owner) was 
taken first, and the best speed attained by her 
in a single run with the tide was 25.71 knots, 
and, as will be seen from the subjoined table, 
her running over the six miles was most con¬ 
sistent. , Miranda IV. followed, but she did not 
appear to be going quite in her best form, her 
first run only recording 27.735 knots. The 
highest speed attained by her in a single run 
was 31.914 with the tide, and she won the con¬ 
test comfortably, her mean speed proving to be 
29.901 knots. Taking the mean of means, the 
speeds were as follow: 
Baby V. Time. 
1st run, against tide. 2m. 26.4's. 
2d run, with tide ....... 2m. 20.2s. 
3d run, against tide. 2m. 26.1s. 
4th run, with tide. 2m. 20.0s. 
5th run, against tide . 2m. 26.4s. 
6th run, with tide. 2m. 20.0s. 
Mean speed equals 25.133 knots. 
Miranda IV. 
1st run, against tide. 2m. 9.4s. 
2d run, with tide . lm. 59.3s. 
3d run, against tide . 2m. 5.4s. 
4th run, with tide. lm. 53.0s. 
5th run, against tide . 2m. 6.4s. 
6th run, with tide. lm. 52.4s. 
Mean speed equals 29.901 knots. 
New Power Life Boat. 
The motor life boat Ida Lewis, which has 
been in use a short time at Brenton’s Point 
Life Saving Station, on the Rhode Island coast, 
is one of the new type of life boats the Govern¬ 
ment is adopting wherever practicable. 
A gasolene engine makes this life boat plunge 
through big waves against wind and sea at a 
speed of nine miles an hour or over. Ida Lewis 
is a strong heavy boat built of mahogany, 
double planked. She is thirty-six feet long and 
self-righting. She is propelled by a 38-horse¬ 
power six-cylinder Holmes engine, which gets 
' up a speed of twelve miles in smooth weather. 
Rigged with two masts, she also does very well 
under sail. 
Not long ago an observer with a camera had 
the opportunity to witness a trip made by the 
Ida Lewis out from her moorings at Brenton’s 
Point to save a small boat that had broken 
adrift on the rough Atlantic. It was stormy 
enough to force all hands to don life jackets— 
not cork ones by the way, but the new article, 
made of wool and Sea Island cotton, packed 
in canvass cells or pockets. Some minutes were 
spent in corralling the stray drifter after she 
had been caught up with. Then she had to be 
towed back to sheltered waters. 
When the Ida Lewis had picked up her moor¬ 
ing in the little cove, Capt. Kenyon looked at 
his watch and found that the boat had been 
away, as near as he could figure, thirty-seven 
minutes. He was very well satisfied with the 
work. 
This was the second test of the new life boat. 
On July 27 she went to the aid of a 30-foot 
launch which had broken down near West Island 
with two men on board. They were in a bad 
way when the Ida Lewis took the launch in tow 
and got her into smooth water. 
Stormy weather made the trip dangerous, 
and Capt. Kenyon was lashed to the bitts in 
order to maintain his place at the helm. In 
regard to this test as a tryout for the life boat, 
Capt. Kenyon said in his report: 
“It was a great test for the new life boat. 
I don’t think there was a man in her who would 
have wanted to go out for a drill that day. I 
believe she is as good a boat as ever was made. 
One sea came aboard of her. It was over my 
head, and did not bother her at all. Everybody 
had to hang on and the fact that I was lashed 
to the bitts prevented me from going overboard. 
I hurt my side some.” 
It is interesting to look this modern life boat 
over and see by what devices she attains steadi¬ 
ness, speed, buoyancy, and in general the ability 
to live through all kinds of weather. 
Despite the fact that she has 1,500 pounds of 
gunmetal in her keel, and is heavily built, the 
Ida Lewis has great buoyancy. This quality is 
given by seventy copper air chambers in the 
hull. A contrivance of watertight hoods at 
stem and stern makes it impossible for the boat 
to remain bottom up in the water. After right¬ 
ing herself the boat is freed of water in eleven 
seconds. 
This type of life boat cannot be launched and 
beached at will. In order that a motor life 
boat may be used a station must be located on 
or near a harbor from which the ocean may be 
reached easily. Such a boat could not be used 
by a station located on the beach. There are 
three other boats of this type in service now. 
The first one was constructed in T907. 
Speed. 
24.52 
25.63 
24.62 
25.71 
24.52 
25.71 
27.735 
30.100 
28.617. 
31.858 
28.391 
31.914 
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