NEW TRANSATLANTIC RECORD

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1229, 11 September 1911, Page 5

NEW TRANSATLANTIC RECORD

: 0 — TO NEW YORK AND. BACK. By Telegraph-Press Association—Copyright (Rec. September 10, 5.5 p.m.) . London, September 9. Tho Cunard liner Lusilania has made tho trip from Liverpool to New York and back iu cloven and a half days, thus beating tho Mauretania's Christmas record'of 12 days 4 hours 39 minutes.

CUMARD RECORDS. SOME FINE ACHIEVEMENTS. The Maurotania's quick trip in December was made to bring American passengers over in time for Christmas in England. Only -IS hours was spent in "turning round" in New York. Her daily runs from the time of her leaving Liverpool were as follow:—Sunday, December 11, noon, 03 miles; Monday, noon, 580'; Tuesday, 510; Wednesday, 039; Thursday, 635; Friday, 1.2 a.ni., Ambrose Lightship, 310: t0ta1,.2750 miles, average speed, 23.93 knots. Homeward:—To neon, Sunday, 357 miles; Monday, 552; Tuesday, 572; Wednesday, 578 (average speed till then, 25.5 knots); Thursday, 580; from noon. IOS-a total distance of 2607 nautical miles at an averago speed of 25.07 knots. The Lusitania on her very first attempt, in the September of 1907, brought the westbound time down to 5 days 1 hour 33 minutes; since then she has made tho run in 4 days 11 hours 42 minutes, her best eastward timo being i days 15 hours 52 minutes. Her sister ship, the Mauritania, has done better still, her westward and eastward times being 4 days 10 hours 41 mi antes and 4 days 13 hours 41 minutes respectively. Her best average speeds have been 20.00 knots westward and 25.89 knots eastward; her best days' runs, 073 knots westward and'GlO knots eastward. As there is 1 a difference of 5 hours (or, roughly, one hour per day of the journey) between Liverpool and Now York, tho Mauretauia gets about 25 hours of timo between midnight and midnight going west, and only" 23 hours coming east. It is, of course, well known that the times of these Atlantic passages arc reckoned not from port to port, but from land to land, that is, from Dauut's Rock, off the Irish coast, to Sandy Hook. Mr. Dooley's sarcastic remarks express what many others feel on first discovering this fact. But even the whole time from the New York wharf to tho Liverpool landingstage is very short—generally from 5 days 17 hours to 5 days 20 hours. Beginning with the Persia in 1850, the Cunard Line made a big step forward by substituting iron for wood in the construction of its ships. The Persia measured 360 ft. by 45ft., with a tonnage of 3300 and a speed of 12.1 knots. Tho screw propeller was adopted in place of the paddle-wheels in 1851, and after the Persia nopaddlo boat was built for this line. Compound engines wero first adopted in tho Tarthia of 1870. Meanwhilo the ships were growing larger and larger, as well as improving in speed. In 1807 camo the Russia, of 2960 tons and 14.4 knots; in 1879 the Gallia, 480S tons and 15.5 knots; in 1881 the Servin, 7392 tons and 1G.7 knots; in 1884 the' Umbria, of 8127 tons and 19.5 knots; in 1593 tho Campania, and Lueania, 13,000 tons and 22 knots; and finally, in 1907, tho Lusitania and Mauretauia, of 32,000 tons and 25 knots.