Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 September 1907 — STEAMSHIP'S FAST TRIP. [ARTICLE]

STEAMSHIP'S FAST TRIP.

LuSiiwniS troiCTiTn<y Atlnßilc Day* and 64 Minutes. After a spectacular ocean race against time, which held the attention of the world for five days, -the Lusitania reached ffondy Hook lightship.. The giant turbine liner of the Canard Line made the’voyage from Queenstown in 5 days 54 minutes. The Lusitania beat the best time ever m-ade by her sister ship of the Cunard Line, the Lucania —five days, seven hours and twenty-three minutes —by over six hours, but was thirtyfive minutes behind the time set by the liner, Deutschland. Slxty-one years ago the little steamship Europa of the Cunard Line, with old-fashioned engines, crossed the Atlantic from Liverpool to New York In eleven days and three hours, breaking the world's record at that time. Then began the contest for supremacy of the sea which led to the building of the fleet Lusitania. The Lucania’s record of five days, seven hours and twenty-five minutes, made from Queenstown to New York in 1894, was at an average speed of 21.81 knots over a course of 2,779 miles. Then the North German Lloyd and American lines began to battle for the western record from Southampton to New York, which W’as held between 1893 and 1896, by the steamships Paris, New York and St. Paul of the American Line. The St. Paul in 1896 made the voyage in six days and thirty-one minutes. Then the North German Lloyd Compasy put over the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse, and tlie new vessel in 18Q7 became the marine wonder of the world when it hung up a record of five days, twenty-two hours and thirty-five minfites from 'Southampton to New York. The big Kaiser created a new record in 1899, when it steamed from Cherbourg to New York, a distance of 3,050 miles, in five days, eighteen hours and fifteen minutes. This record was lowered in the same year by the Kaiser to five days, seventeen hours and thir-ty-seven •minutes.