Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 October 1907 — OCEAN RECORDS SMASHED. [ARTICLE]

OCEAN RECORDS SMASHED.

Lusitania Croaaea the Atlantia In Four Days and Twenty Hour*. The giant turbine steamship Lusitania is queen of the~oeean. She crossed the Atlantic in a little over four days and fifteen hours, beating all records from shore to shore and wrenching from the Germans the honor of having the ship that can,ride the seas at the fastest average number of miles per hour. The new record bearer takes about nine hours and a half off her own record, made on her maiden voyage from Daunt’s Rock to the bar at Sandy Hook, and made the run at nearly twenty-five knots for each hour of the voyage. Thus in every way she Is to be accredited as the fastest ocean steamship in the world. With this achievement the Cunard Line ami England capture from Germany the eagerly sought record for possessing the fleetest ship on the Atlantic. The Hamburg-American liner Deutschland has held the record for a number of years. Steamship men also claim that the achievement of the Lusitania proves the superiority of turbine engines over the reciprocating type. The Lusitania on this trip captures practically all trans-Atlantic records. Her best day s run. «iy knots, was filne knots better than the former record held by the Deutschland. Her average speed exceeds the former record of

23.58 knots held by the Kaiser Wilhelm 11. of the North German Lloyd Line, and her record for the trip across the ocean beats that of the HamburgAmerican liner Deutschland, which crossed from Cherbourg, a much longer course, in 5 days 11 hours and 54 minutes. The Deutschland’s average speed was 23.15 knots, while the average of the Lusitania’s first trip, which ended at Sandy Hook Sept. 13, was 23.01 knotsi or 5 days 54 minutes, for the trip. The Lusitania’s first trip gave her the record for the Queenstown course formerly held by the Lucanla of the same line, which made the voyage in 1894 in 5 days 7 hours 23 minutes. The Cttnard line captured its first record for the voyage across the ocean when the Europa, in >1845, made the' then remarkable time of 11 days 3 hours, beating the former record of the famous Great Eastern, made In 1838. of. 14% dajra-Z- -