Miss Britain III

Miss Britain III was a speedboat designed by Hubert Scott Paine and built by his company British Power Boats. Inspired by the success of the Supermarine S6B in the 1931 Schneider Trophy, he had tried to obtain a Rolls Royce type R engine to power a boat to challenge the American speedboat racer, Gar Wood for the Harmsworth Trophy. Wood's massive speedboat America X had four engines and nearly 8,000 horsepower.

This is my version!

Those of a sensitive disposition should turn down the volume BEFORE playing the video.

Neil

shame we can't hear the roar of the massive engine over the backing music

It's more of a gentle whirr with a BLDC outrunner

Neil

Why the "music" if you could call it that otherwise a good video.

Russell.

Very nice. What you need now is a sound chip, amplifier and speaker, then you can make it sound like a Merlin.

Sacrilege! It's a Napier Lion!

Neil

Oi! That's me & my bro'! You can't moan it came with a health warning.

Neil

So find a recording of one of those!

Edited By duncan webster on 08/03/2016 18:03:26

Well corporate IT don't like something about that video server. Will have to try at home. Don't care about the boat but now I want to hear what the 'musak' is like.

Goggle cloud.

Neil

Like it! the real one is in the foyer of the Maritime museum in London. Having a Napier engine put it on my must see list on a trip to 'T smoke a couple of years ago.

Phil

I just get a blank area where, I suppose, the video should appear. I'm using Firefox under Win10 x64.

There is a Napier Lion in Peter Jackson's vintage aviation museum, I'll hunt out a photo.

Ian S C

Gary,

Firefox and Win10 x64 works for me.

Here we go. Ian S C    Sorry got the photos in the wrong order.

Edited By Ian S C on 09/03/2016 13:03:52

The thing that surprised me when I saw it was, just how spindly the crankshaft was.

Nevertheless, the Lion saved many lives powering WW2 Air Sea Rescue launches.

Great British engineering that is no more, sadly.

Howard

The Napier Heritage Trust had a display at the last Model; Engineer exhibition.

Neil

I believe tat the one in the photo is serviceable. Which boat was it in in 1930.

Howard I expect they could make the crankshaft more "flimsy" owing to the fact that it is fairly short with the cylinders in three banks of four.

Ian S C

Edited By Ian S C on 10/03/2016 10:11:31

Hmmm,

I had a Win10 upgrade and reboot last night, and upgraded Firefox to the latest level (45.0) and still get a blank area instead of a video.