Miss England II information

Miss England II was the second of a series of speedboats used by Henry Segrave and Kaye Don to contest world water speed records in the 1920s and 1930s...

Miss England II was powered by two Rolls-Royce aircraft engines and seemed capable of beating Wood's record. On 13 June 1930, Segrave piloted Miss England...

Miss England II and the stern was a traditional square transom, unlike the pointed sterns of the earlier two boats. The differing appearance of Miss England...

Mary II (30 April 1662 – 28 December 1694) was Queen of England, Scotland, and Ireland, co-reigning with her husband, King William III and II, from 1689...

unlikely relic is the distorted steering wheel of racing speedboat Miss England II, donated after the coppa dell oltranza (unlimited cup) powerboating...

new Miss America IX) and George (in last year's Miss America VIII), and the "Englishman" Kaye Don, driving Lord Wakefield's powerboat Miss England II. While...

International and Miss Supranational the following year under the Britain, England or United Kingdom banner.[citation needed] From 1958 to 1999, Miss United Kingdom...

Wood brothers and racing driver and record-breaker Kaye Don, driving Miss England II. Before an estimated crowd of over a million spectators (one of the...

Segrave broke the world water speed record on Windermere in his boat, Miss England II at an average speed of 158.94 km/h (98.76 mph). On the third run over...

June 1930, a few months after receiving his knighthood, Segrave drove Miss England II to a new record of 98.76 mph (85.82 kn; 158.94 km/h) average over two...

for England, equalling the all-time record. He would later miss an 84th-minute penalty with the chance to level the match. The motif of the England national...

19, 1960 – May 1, 2003), best known in professional wrestling circles as Miss Elizabeth, was an American occasional professional wrestler, professional...

with an Army nurse named Margaret Hunter in England during World War II. This revelation caused tension in Miss Ellie and Jock's marriage, as she felt that...

King George II. Eyre & Spottiswoode Marshall, Dorothy (1962) Eighteenth Century England 1714–1784 Robertson, Charles Grant (1911) England under the Hanoverians...

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ship of the German Navy that was sunk in the Baltic Sea during World War II. She was launched in 1923 as München (after the German city, sometimes spelled...

her West End debut in The Donmar Warehouse's production of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. In September, the Evening Standard named her "one of the Rising...

1914–1917. Hattiesburg, Miss: 1970. The Secret Letters of the Last Czar: Being the Confidential Correspondence between Nicholas II and his Mother, Dowager...

Rutherford switched roles, from Miss Prism to Lady Bracknell for the North American production; Jean Cadell played Miss Prism. Robert Flemyng played Algy...

of war ships intended for the Enterprise of England, as Philip II had decided to take the war to England. On 12 July 1588, the Spanish Armada, a great...

Susanne, eds. (2016), Hercule Poirot trifft Miss Marple. Agatha Christie intermedial [Hercule Poirot meets Miss Marple] (in German), Darmstadt: Büchner,...

Kaye Don's Miss England boats. Of the three individual R engines used by K3, one had previously run in Blue Bird and one in Miss England II. The most compact...

The New England Patriots are a professional American football team based in the Greater Boston area. The Patriots compete in the National Football League...