ATLANTIC CROSSING
4 QUEEN MARY ESTABLISHES NEW RECORD ON EAST TO WEST JOURNEY NEW YORK, August 8. The Cunard-White Star liner Queen Mary claimed a new record for the east-west crossing of the Atlantic after her commander had radioed that the ship had passed the Ambrose lightship at 1.32 a.m. today, thus establishing a run of 93 hours 48 minutes from Bishop Rock (Scilly Isles). This time is 74 minutes better than the Normandie’s record. The Queen Mary averaged 30.99 knots for the 2907-mile trip. She also set a new record for the distance covered in a single day by steaming 790 miles from noon on Friday to noon on Saturday. The Normandie continues to hold the west-east record of 94 hours 7 minutes, although this time does not equal that set up by the Queen Mary on the eastwest journey.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 August 1938, Page 5
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