The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1894-01-18
LONG STEAMSHIP TRIPS.
The East Indiau II. aud o. Line sad Other
Lone Voyage. OF British Liners.

The East Iadis. r. aud o. I.ire aud Other
Lone Voyage. OF British Liners.
No merchant steamship makes any such
voyage as that Just undertaken By the White
Star liner Gothic. which left Liverpool Dec. %.
bound for New Zealand via Cape Town. to re-
turn via tho Straits Of Magellan. The outward
bound journey will take the Gothic in effect
through 90 degrees Of latitude and through
about 100 degrees OF longitude on the 10th
parallel south. Tho return journey will take
the ship through ITO degrees Of longitude and
about l03 degrees OF latitude. The Gothic Is
new twin screw ship OF 1870 tons. by no
means the largest OF the White Star fleet.
The longest merchant steamship voyages
now regularly made are those OF the several
British lines from Great Britain to Cape Town.
to Australia and to India. and those from San
Francisco to Australia and New Zealand. The
longest Of these journeys does not exceed
$4,000 miles. as the voyage to the East from
Great Britain Is now usually made by way OF
the Mediterranean and the Suez Canal The
journey from New York to san Francisco by
way Of Cane Horn is one Of the longest made.
Ssins the the .,h a%Ss J, fs sss%Sr
are these: From London to Bombay jus
miles; to Colombo. Seyion. 7.o5s: to Madras.
MeiSoarns. 'f1 .3td: to s1 nSa + 800 The
voyages from London to Chinese and japanese
most instances. perhaps. these voyages are
broken at Colombo The outward voyage OF
these. and the homeward voy age is longer still
The popular notion that steamship travel
spseS As n.r Is ar r s@s
the truth. None OF the long voyages are made
At speed in any way remark a uie At this time
far below the swift Atlantic liners in horse
power. The indicated horse power OF some
great ships OF the Peninsular and Oriental
steam Navigation Company have AN effective
one the Caledonia. has 1000. The Penin-
sular and Oriental; commonly called the T.
company in the world and certainly its voyaGes
are longer than those OF any other company.
IL carries the British mails to the East Indies
has BECOME tho movements Of ships ON
these long VOYAGES that the company
50 many days and half days. The contract
time to Dombay Is 2Gia days. to Shanghai. 37h
has been SO much as an hour late in only seven
INSTANCES out Of itIS deliveries in three years.
and tai deliveries were 1,s made considerably
arranged SO as to show the exact day OF reach
ing every touching place. The ship that lett
Jan. -; Colombo, Feb. Madras, Feb, I;
ports is made out with like circums tantlality
There can be no comparison Of speed between
THIS voyage anu tnat OF the Atlantic liners be-
cause tho voyage to Calcutta includes many
stops, and the passage OF the Suez Canal
The swiftest long voyages are those made
by the great ships that carry the mails across
the Pacific between Yokohama and British
Columbia The voyage from England TO Cape
Town is now made In very quick time. and the
Improvement In twenty years Ia remarkable.
The voyage from southampton to Cape Town
In 1872 used to occupy from ~ to - days
The average passage now outward is lS days
hour and ~ minutes and the average OF the
return voyage Ii j days 81 hours and 81 min
utes. The steamship Dunatlar Castle OF
the Bibby Incl mads the outward voyage
the return yoyags in Is days hours
Union line has made the fastest passage on
record from Southampton to the Cape. The
outward voyage was IA days IL hours, and the
return voyage 4 days; The Scot is a ship of
$3.50 tons and $4,000 horse power.
The voyage from Great Britain to Australian
ports has been greatly, expedited within the
past few years. and Is likely to be made still
shorter. The +. and O's greatest ship is her
new Caledonia. her fifty-second ship. Her
tonnage is 1900 and her horse power IL 900
while the average tonnage q the whole nifty
average horse power is less than 4. 500