AQUITANIA’S RECORD
Best Atlantic Crossing j (British Official Wireless. Rugby, May 5. The liner Aquitania, which reached Southampton this afternoon from New York, completed her best deaming performance in her 23 years’ : career when she crossed the Atlantic between (he Ambrose channel light vessel and the Cherbourg breakwater, 3199 nautical miles, in five days eight hours 37 minutes. Her average speed was’ 24.87 knots. Her previous best average was 24.82 knots, accomplished in 1936, after she had been fitted with four new propellers-.
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Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 426, 6 May 1937, Page 5
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83AQUITANIA’S RECORD Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 426, 6 May 1937, Page 5
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