Frederick K. Burnham was the winner of the APBA Challenge Cup with his boat Dixie III in 1910. He was also a winner of the Harmsworth Cup.
The Harmsworth Cup, popularly known as the Harmsworth Trophy, is an historically important British International Trophy for Motorboats.
In 1910 and 1911 he won the Harmsworth Trophy for power boat racing in his boats Dixie III and Dixie IV.
In 1911 he was charged with criminal negligence and cowardice by Dr. R.A. Toms, Justice of the Peace of Tonawanda, New York. Harold W. Bell was killed when Burnham's motorboat, the Dixie IV, ran ashore while competing in championship races here on September 16, 1911. [1] [2]
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Burnham married, in June 1907, Lillian Richardson Baldwin (1882-1967), who was a niece of the opera star Lillian Nordica. They divorced in 1912 and had two children: Frederick W. Burnham (born 1908) and Annette Patricia Burnham (1910-1966).
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This is a list of aviation-related events from 1911:
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James G. Thompson is a Canadian businessman, philanthropist, and sportsman. He is best known for designing and building the Miss Supertest hydroplanes.
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Graham Gilmour (1885–1912) was a British pioneer aviator, known for his impromptu public displays of flying. He was killed on 17 February 1912 when his Martin-Handasyde monoplane suffered a structural failure and crashed in the Old Deer Park in Richmond, London.
Ada K. Damon was a Grand Banks schooner that was used for fishing and later for sand transportation. She was wrecked on 26 December 1909 during a large snowstorm when her anchor chain parted, setting her adrift.
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Truant was a steamboat that was operated in the Yaquina Bay region of Oregon from 1911 to 1919, transporting passengers and freight, and engaging in towing work. After 1919, Truant was transferred to the Columbia River.
Frederick K. Burnham's speedy hydroplane, which successfully defended the Harmsworth Cup at Huntington, L.I., and on Friday won the championship of the United States on the Niagara River course, to-night lies a wreck on a narrow ridge of rock between the Niagara River and the Erie Canal, off Riverside Park.
Criminal negligence and cowardice are charged against Frederick K. Burnham in the findings of Dr. R.A. Toms, Justice of the Peace of Tonawanda, who conducted the inquest into the death of Harold W. Bell, one of the persons fatally injured when Capt. Burnham's motorboat, the Dixie IV., ran ashore while competing in championship races here on Sept. 16.