The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-05-13
FLEW OVER THE SEA,
Wonderful Speed of the New
Cunarder Campania.
She Has Beaten All Previous Records
Between New York and Queens
town and Liverpool.
Special to THE MORNING CALL

QUEENSTOWN, May 12.-The new Cunard
steamer Campania arrived this morning
from New Y Yorli, beating the record for the
eastward passage, doing it in five days,
seventeen hours and forty-two minutss.
There was great jubilation over the vic
tory.
1t WAS a race between the CampanIa and
the Paris of the American Line The
Paris passed Sandy Hook Lightship at
1880 A. N. Saturday, May 6; the Cam
pania at 1i:13. The latter gained steadily
on her rival and passed her 1O9 miles east
Of Sandy Hook. From that time on the
Csmpania did not sight the Paris. The
best previous eastward time was that on
the American Liner New York last August,
five days, nineteen hours and lfty-seven
minutes.
The Cunard Company has made ar
raDgements to land the passengers of the
Campania on the arrival Of the steamer
at Liverpool tonight. This IS unprece-
dented in the history of transatlantic
travel The Office OF the company is
thronged with an excited crowd of people
betting whether the passengers by the
Campana will be landed at Liverpool be-
fore or after the passengers OF the Paris
are Iandeu at SOUTHAMPTON.
The first trip of the Cunard Company's
first boat, the Britannia, was made in 1910
and occupied fourteen days and eight
hours in its run TO Boston. This boat had q
capacity for only 115 cabin passengers
while the Campania. its latest successor,
can carry 600 first-class, 400 second-class
and from 700 to 1000 thrd-class. On her
trial trip on the Clyde she attained a speed
of 23.5 knots, equal to twenty-seven miles
per hour, record unsurpassed by any
steamship, and on her maiden trip she
made the distance from Queenstown to
New York in six days and four and one
half hours.
This, for maiden trip, is remarkable
record and fully bore out the expectation
Of both her builders and owners.
The Campania has twelve main boilers
ald two auxiliary boilers. The twelve
main boilers are doube-ended, eighteen
feet in diameter and seventeen feet
long, each having eight corrugated
furnaces, four at each end, with
combustion chamber in common to each
pair OF furnaces. OF the auxiliary boilers
one is eighteen feet in diameter by eleven
feet long with four furnaces and the
other 10 feet in diameter by 10 feet long,
with two furnaces. These two auxiliary
boilers are intended primarily to furnish
steam to operate various appliances about
the ship. but they are so arranged as to- be
used in connection with the regular bat
terry for driving the ship when required
The main boilers are the largest yet made
for the pressure required-165 pounds.
The plates were supplied by the Steel Com
pany of Scotland. and are 1882 inches in
thickness. some OF them being 20 feet long
by feet wide.
LIVERPOOL, May 12-The Campania
landed her passengers here at 10 o'clock,
and thus beat all previous records. She
steamed from Queenstown to Liverpool in
ten hours and three minutes. or at the
rate OF 22.49 knots an hour. The officers
OF the ship cannot say enough in praise of
her engines and her sea-going Qualities,
and the Cunard Company is receiving
numerous kilograms of Generalization,