Career

In 1898 Ernest Blakelock Thubron was managing Owner of the Boulac Engine Works, Cairo and in 1906 he was still working as a boat constructor in Egypt. He finished the forty nautical miles in 2:26:53, and Camille was the only boat to finish that race. He retired to New Zealand.

Achievements

• He won the second running of the Harmsworth Trophy for motor powered boats in 1904 in Trefle-à-quatre. He competed with his boat Camille in Class A (the open class) at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London, where he won the gold medal.