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In the Driftway
August 14, 1929 issue

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This article presets information about boats. The New York "World" shows itself to be a true lover of Americana in its scornful refusal to accept the claim of the motor launch Bogie to beating the record of the famous Mississippi River steamboat Robert E. Lee. The performance of the Bogie has not anything more to do with the record of the Robert E. Lee than the cross-time of the new steamship Bremen has to do with the best transatlantic passage of the celebrated sailing ship Red Jacket. Robert E. Lee is credited with a speed of eighteen miles an hour against the current and as much as twenty-five miles when running downstream.

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BOATS & boating; STEAMBOATS; SAILING ships; PERFORMANCE; MISSISSIPPI River; UNITED States
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