Coniston Water per hour () in "Blue Bird K4". Between 1956 and 1959 Sir Malcolm's son Donald Campbell set four successive records on the lake in "Bluebird K7", a hydroplane. In 1966 Donald Campbell decided that he needed to exceed 300 miles per hour (483 km/h) in order to retain the record. On 4 January 1967, he achieved a top speed of over 320 miles per hour () in "Bluebird K7" on the return leg of a record-breaking attempt. He then lost control of "Bluebird", which somersaulted and crashed, sinking rapidly. Campbell was killed instantly on impact when decapitated by the K7's
M. P. Paul INR 25,000, a citation and a plaque. Rosy Thomas, Paul's daughter and a writer herself, wrote a book on Paul by name "Urangunna Simham" (The Sleeping Lion). M. P. Paul M. P. Paul was a college professor, scholar and a literary critic of Malayalam. Menachery Poulose Paul was born on 1 May 1904 at Puthenpally Varapuzha, Ernakulam to Poulose and Rosamma. He was a teacher by profession and worked in St.Thomas College, Thrissur, S.B.College, Changanassery and Mar Ivanious College, Thiruvananthapuram. He also established tutorial centres, M. P. Paul's Tutorial College, at Thrissur, Kottayam, Ernakulam and Thiruvananthapuram and famous Malayalam writer,