The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-03
thus within thirteen DAYS of New york.

thus within thirteen days of New York.
The Collins line entered the competition
Adriatic and the Baltic. The ships of this
line during 1851 averaged eleven days and
eight hours from Liverpool to New York,
the quickest trip being made by the Baltic
in nine days and thirteen hours The fleet
of the Cunard line during the same year
averaged eleven days and twenty-three
being made by the Africa in ten days, six
teen hours and fifty minutes. The quickest
eastward time was ten days, five hours and
Collins line, the following year ran from
Liverpool to New York in ten days and
three hours, the Arctic getting the return
record in nine days, thirteen hours and thir-
ty minutes. Meantime the Cunard records
were westward in ten days and nineteen
hours by the Asia and eastward by the
same steamship in ten days, five hours and
ten minutes.
Misfortune fell to many of these early
ocean greyhounds. The Arctic was sunk by
Pacific, with 240 souls aboard. sailed from
Liverpool and was never heard from; the
converted in coal hulk, and the Baltic
was blown to pieces in a, gale. The Persia
new 300 toner of the Cunard Company
captured the record of nine days, ten hours
and thirty minutes in 1857, but the same
year the Vanderbilt cut it down to nine
days, nine hours and twenty-four. minutes
on the western trip, and accomplished the
hours
Inc leV1atnan Great Eastern was built to
revolutionize ocean travelling in 1858, and
proved a monumental failure. She took
more than ten days to make the ocean trip,
and in that time consumed nearly 1900 tons
OF coal. The Alps and the Andes, iron screw
steamships, were added to the fleet of the
Cunard Company in 1852, but they were not
fast boats. They merely served to demon
strate the superiority of iron vessels. The
Scotia built by the Cunard line in 1860 was
the last of the Side-wheel ocean steamers
and in 1866 she succeeded in establishing the
then wonderful record of a flight across the
Atlantic. in eight days, two hours and forty
The Inman line came into existence ten
years after the foundation of the Cunard
line, and the fight for record voyages went
put into commission. These included the
Cityt of Glasgow. the City of Manchester,
ington and the Etna. The first steamboat
called the City of New York appeared in
the Inman fleet in 1861, but the Scotia and
the Persia, of the Cunard line, still held the
palm for speed. The second City of Paris
was launched in 1865, the first having been
wrecked on Daunt's Rock, the point near
Queenstown, from which the race is now
reckoned and year later she had the City
of Paris for consort The latter vessel. even
Inman line by making the voyage from
New York to Queenstown in eight days
four hours and thirteen minutes.
FIRST SEvEN-DAY STEAMER.
The City of Chester. of the Inman line
made the passage from Queenstown to
Sandy Hook in 1874 in eight days one hour
and thirty-eight minutes. and in October of
the following year the City of Berlin made
passages both ways in seven days eighteen
hours and two minutes and seven days four
hours and twelve minutes.
The White Star line, first known as the
Oceanic Steamship Company, was organized
in $780, and after the Atlantic, Baltic, Re
public, Adriatic and Celtic had failed to re-
duce the record, in 1874 the Britannia was
launched, her sister ship, the Germanic, fol-
lowing in 1875. The following year she cap
tured the honors by making the outward
trip between this port and Queenstown in
utes That trip was made in December,
1876, and the following August the Britannia
cut the western record TO seven days ten
hours and ffty-three minutes.
Meantime the Guion line, formerly known
as the Black Star line, had been planning to
gain the coveted record, and the Arizona of
that company made the best voyage in 1879
On her maiden voyage she brought the time
to seven days nine hours and twenty-three
minutes. Then the Arizona ran full tilt into
pair. The Guion line built another record
breaker, the Alaska, and this vessel was
the first to bring the time of passage within
seven days. In 1882 she made the trip in six
days eighteen hours and thirty-seven min
utes
The Oregon then took her place amongst
Guion Atlantic greyhounds, and in August
1884, made trip across in less than six and
a half days. 1t was soon after the Oregon
ended her career in a collision Oft Fire
island. March II, 1886. The Umbria and the
Etruria were added to the list of Cunarders
and helped regain the laurels for that line
This pair for four years kept the lead.
The Umbria in June, 1856. made the western
run in six days four hours and twelve min
utes An eastward voyage made In Novem-