Sir Henry O'Neal de Hane Segrave was an early British pioneer in land speed and water speed records.
20 Facts About Henry Segrave
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Henry Segrave died in an accident in 1930 shortly after setting a new world water speed record on Windermere in the Lake District, England.
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Henry Segrave, who was a British national, was born on 22 September 1896 in Baltimore, Maryland, to an American mother and an Irish father.
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Henry Segrave was raised in Ireland and attended Eton College in England.
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Henry Segrave spent some time at 'Belle Isle' house, near Portumna and learnt to drive the family houseboat.
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Henry Segrave is reported to have attended the North Shannon Yacht Club regatta on Lough Boderg between Leitrim and Roscommon.
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Henry Segrave's revolver was clogged with mud so he threw a belt of ammunition at the German he was fighting and the resulting shot went high and hit him in the shoulder.
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Henry Segrave became the 'pilot' in command on the ground of the first unmanned powered aircraft, the Aerial Target.
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Henry Segrave was sent to the US in the autumn as part of Brig.
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Henry Segrave sent reports to Norman, including details of the US enquiries into their aircraft production failures.
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In 1921 Henry Segrave won the first long-distance car race to be run in Britain.
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Henry Segrave won in a Darracq-made Talbot that were marketed as Talbot-Darracqs.
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On 16 March 1926, Henry Segrave set his first land speed record of 152.33 miles per hour using Ladybird, a 4-litre Sunbeam Tiger on Ainsdale beach at Southport, England.
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On 11 March 1929, Henry Segrave set his final land speed record again at Daytona Beach.
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Henry Segrave never attempted another land speed record after witnessing the high-speed death of American racing driver, Lee Bible, who was trying to set a new land speed record on 13 March 1929, at Ormond Beach, Florida.
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Wood sportingly offered to help Henry Segrave, particularly sharing his experiences in propeller and rudder design.
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Henry Segrave, who was rescued unconscious as the boat sank, regained consciousness for a moment and asked about the fate of "the lads".
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The prototype, known as the Saro Henry Segrave Meteor was a wooden twin-engined monoplane.
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Only three metal versions of the Blackburn Henry Segrave were subsequently built.
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In 1930 the Henry Segrave Trophy was established to recognise any British national who demonstrated the most outstanding accomplishments in the possibilities of transport by land, sea, air, or water.