Print, Photographic

Photograph

Shanaman Sports Museum

Coral Reef put in Water

Name/Title

Print, Photographic

Entry/Object ID

1997.04.15.a-n

Description

Mechanics Frank Woods, left, and Ed Longozo stand atop the U-19 Coral Reef hydroplane as it is lowered into the water. U-19 Coral Reef driver Harry Reeves, center, lowers himself into the cockpit as mechanic Ira Webster walks on the boat deck. Mechanics Frank Woods, left, and Gordon Wright stand on the U-19 Coral Reef hydroplane as it is lowered into the water. Driver Harry Reeves takes the U-19 Coral Reef onto the water as mechanics Ed Longozo, center, and Frank Woods, right, watch. A mechanic checks out the engine of a hydroplane. Eleven members of the U-19 Coral Reef team pose next to the hydroplane. Two unidentified members of the U-19 Coral Reef team sit on the front of the hydroplane as it sits in the water. Mechanic Frank Woods sits in the cockpit of the Miss Rocket, which became the U-19 Coal Reef the next year. Bob Larsen, one of the boat's drivers, has his name inscribed behind the cockpit. Four crew members of the Miss Rocket hydroplane steady the boat as it is lowered into the water in 1957. A man and a boy stand next to the U-19 Coral Reef hydroplane as two other children look at the boat. A man sits in a flower-decorated float designed to look like a hydroplane. A parade float is made in honor of the Miss Rocket hydroplane. Five people walk toward the hydroplane race.

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Hydro Racing, hydroplanes, Professional/Semi-Pro

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Snell, Austin

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Reeves. Jarru

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Wright, Gordon

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Longozo, Ed

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Woods, Frank

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Wright, Gordon

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Longozo, Ed

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Woods, Frank

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U-19 Coral Reef

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Miss Rocket

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Reeves, Harry

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Webster, Ira

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Larsen, Bob