GREAT OLD CUNARDER
MAURETANIA ATTACKS BREMEN’S RECORD FAILS BY TWO HOURS (Australian and N.Z. Press Association) Reed. 10 a.m. LONDON, Wed. The Cunard liner Mauretania, holder of the Atlantic blue riband for 22 years, steamed from New York to Eddystone Lighthouse in four days 17 hours 49 minutes, an average speed of 27.22 knots, heating her own record by four hours but failing to equal the new German liner Bremen’s record by two hours.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/SUNAK19290822.2.89
Bibliographic details
Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 748, 22 August 1929, Page 9
Word Count
74GREAT OLD CUNARDER Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 748, 22 August 1929, Page 9
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Sun (Auckland). You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in