The World’s Fastest Watercraft
Even in the last decade of Alexander Graham Bell’s life, the Bras d’Or Lakes continued to be the scene of the legendary inventor’s most exciting technological experiments. Just as they had gathered to watch Jack McCurdy lift his Silver Dart off the ice in 1909, residents of the community turned out on September 9, 1919, to witness the Bras d’Or trials of the HD-4, a hydrofoil designed Alexander Graham Bell and his engineering assistant, Casey Baldwin. The prototype craft, equipped with 2 brand new U. S. Navy Liberty engines, attained a speed of 71 miles per hour (114 kilometres per hour), and instantly became the fastest watercraft in the world. Bell and Baldwin’s HD-4 water-speed record remained unbroken until 1963!
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kind of an ugly boat