1959
U-66 Miss United States III (USA)
Owner - Robert B. Evans
Designer - George Eddy (with consultant Douglas Patten)
Length - 36ft
Beam - 12ft
Colours - red & white
Weight - 11,800 (some sources say 13,000)
Power - two V-12 Packard marine engines (app. 3,000-3,600 hp total)
side by side, with two gear-boxes with counter-rotating propellers
Renamed Miss Stars and Stripes [??].
| "This radical-appearing boat is not for competition, but straightaway runs. She is
36 feet long, has a 12-foot beam and has three high-speed planing surfaces. Miss
United States III is owned by the Precision Scientific Co., Chicago. She is powered
by twin supercharged American designed 12-cylinder Packard (PT type) engines. Her
designers are George Eddy and Douglas Van
Patten. She came upon the racing scene in 1959
after being built in extreme secrecy."
(Reprinted from This is Hydroplaning by Paul Lowney [1959]) |
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