 Thus there were three entries, but the organisers insisted in running heats before the final race.Mr F Beadel was excluded from competing in the final despite putting in a better time over the 8 and a half mile course than Thornycroft 
 England won the trophy in 1903 with Dorothy Levitt driving a Napier powered, 40 foot steel hulled boat at 19.53 mph at Queenstown (now Cobh) in Cork harbour, Ireland.It was owned and entered by Selwyn Edge the owner of Napier Motors.