Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1907 — NEW QUEEN OF THE SEA. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

NEW QUEEN OF THE SEA.

Lusitania May Yield Speed Title to the Mauretania. The Lusitania may be dethroned and her sister ship the Mauretania be crowned the new queen of the Sea. fn her trial trip the latter vessel attained the speed of 26.03 knots an hour In a run of 1,200 mlles and of 27.36 knots an hour In a run of 300 miles. The best the Lusitania has been able to make

is less than 25 knots an hour. This means that the Mauretania will be at least ten per cent faster than her sister ■nip. The new turbine speed marvels are the wonders, of the world. If one vessel of this type can lower the Atlantic record and two weeks later another can cut that" record by ten per cent, there Is the possibility that a third may be built that will be ten pex cent better than the second, and that means that the trip across the Atlantic wilt be reduced to less than three days. The Mauretania is 95 feet longer than the Great Eastern. Her gross tonnage is 32,000. The Mauretania is Ing greater in depth by some 5 or 6 inches. She is therefore some 300 tons heavier than the Lusitania. The extreme breadth Is 88 feet, and the maximum draught 37 feet 6 Inches. Two rows of gigantic ventilator cowls render the external appearance of the Mauretania somewhat different from the sister ship.

THE MIGHTY NEW CUNARDER MAURETANIA.