A QUICK PASSAGE.

Westport Times, Volume V, Issue 857, 5 September 1871, Page 3

A QUICK PASSAGE.

The Oceanic, Captain W. 11. Thomson, one of the fine new line of steamers belonging to the White Star line, has just completed a remarkable run across the Atlantic. She left New York on the 3rd instant at 3.30 p.m. From her log it appears that by noon on the 4th she had traversed 245 miles, the weather being calm. On the following day, with the wind blowing strongly from N. to N.N.W., the vessel ran 320 knots. On the 6th, the wind being strong from N.~W., the Oceanic logged 38i miles, one of the most extraordinary performances on

record; and on the 7th, with a moderate breeze from N.N.W., she travelled 340 miles. On the Kth, 33-1 miles were run; on tho 9th, when there was a powerful wind from N.W., 364 miles; on tho 10th, with moderate wind from W.NW., 3q3 miles; and on the iltb, when there was a gentle breeze from N.N.W., she ran from latitude 51 deg 11 sec, lmgitude 15 deg, 211 miles, arriving at Roche's Point at 10 minuses to 6 in the morning. At 9.30 a.m. the Oceanic left Queenslown, and arrived at the Bell Buoy at 3.20 on Tuesday morning, and, after waiting for high water to cross the bar, proceeded to her anchorage in the Mersey, Which she reached a few minutes after 7, thus making the entire passage from New York to Liverpool in a little over nine days. The Oceanic had 240 saloon passengers, the largest number ever carried across the Atlantic by one vessel, among them being Mr Walter Montgomery and other theatrical notabilities.