Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1892-02-27
MARVELLOUS RUN OF THE MAJESTIC.
She Crosses the Atlantic at the Highest
Average speed Ever Attained.


Through placid summer seas in August
last the White star Line steamship Teu-
tonic made the wonderful record OF FIVE
days sixteen hOu and thirty-one minutes
from Queenstown so Sandy Hook. Her
sister ship, the Majestic. completed on
Wednesday. saws the New York Sun, before
an easteriy gale more marvellous run,
the mere time OF wnlch--fye days twenty
hours and TWENTY-FIVE minutes does
not indicate It's excellence. The
time. taken IN connection with the
distance she covered -- 2,S66 knots
shows that she ]. entitled to the pen
nant as an ocean racer. Over the same
course logged by the ieutonic (2.773 kno,s)
the Majestic, maintaining the average
speed she developed on the trip she finish
ed yesterday, would have beaten the leu
tonic by 81 minutes. On her record trip
the IeutOnic made sea mile IN 1883 min-
utes; the Majestic made sea mile this
time IN 2. 933 minutes. OF .0A Of a minute
faster than the Teutonic. She has practi-
callY beaten tho record, having averaged
2l.41 knots an hour % 70. 80 knots made by
the TeutoniC.
Captain Parsell saws the Majestic GER
tauly would have lowered the record by
more thau an hour If he could have gone
over o short nOrtheFly course IN smooth
seas. Thoro was little advantage in having
on easterly gale back OF him. as the Ma
jestic spreads no canvas, and tho gale
merely kicked up big seas. Whenever the
Majestic dipped her nose into the trough
her propelers raced. This prevented her
from maintaining uniform speed and
Knocked several miles on her daily record.
During three DAYS Of the voyage. Sunday.
Monday. and tuesday, she averaged sos
miles a day. This performance has been
oxcelied only by The GeutOnic.
The Majestic loft the uersey on Wednes-
dag before last, making the run TO
Queenstown (23G miles! before dawn on
Thursday. She sailed from Cork harbor
on Thursday afternoon before q strong
northeasterly wind She logged 40 knots
up to noon on Friday. The seas were
rather heavy, rolling under the counter
of the swift ship on Saturday, and she
could make only 485 knots. Smoother seas
enabled her 90 put 5O4 knots behind her
on Sunday. She beat that fine run by
two miles on the next day, and on Tues
day came within two miles OF the best
dan S record, logging 5l4 miles. From noon
on Tuesday until $3.50 o'clock Yesterday
morning. when she came abreast Of San
dy Hook hght-ship, she ran 3S6 miles.
The White Star ships have this peculiar
Characteristic their speed increases as
they grow older. As an illustration, the
Germanic and Britannia made better time
than they ever did. aud they have been IN
service for eighteen wears. The White Star
Lines representatives here believe. that
the comparatively-new leutonie and Ma
jostc will lower their own records by an
hour or so next summer. and may eyentu-
ally ast0nish the world by a run Of 81
days from Queenstown. Some Of the Ma
estic's passengers wore: J.. o. Arbuthnot,
W. r.. Baldwin. T. c. Barnes. A. G. Bigclow,
John W. Blodgett, j. K. Calender. j. X.
Osgood, Commander Paget (royal navy,
DR.. VI j. Quntero, DR.. George Stevenson,
and BlshOp Ihorbnrn.