The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-09-23

view to speed as we'll as safety. Count
Won Buelow, the foreign minister of Ger.
many. proudly described the Deutschland
as 1.-The mightiest ship in the world" Or
her first trip in July she steamed from
Plymouth to New York in five days, fif-
teen hours and .forty-six minutes, cover
in 3,044 knots at an average speed of
22.42 knots an hour. Returning she beat
the Kaiser Wilhelm,s first homeward run
to the same port by one hour and nine
teen minutes, doing the passage in five
days, fourteen hours and six minutes.
Then she proceeded to. make astonishing
runs. She covered the distance in five
days, eleven hours and forty-fve min
utes, her average speed during this run
being 1882 knots an hour, and the great
est days run being 552 nautical miles
HELD RECORD THREE YEARS.
With the Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse the
North German Lloyd company, before the
advent of the new flyer, the Deutschland,
easily de1ed all competitors in speed for
three years. Her maiden voyage was
in September, 1897, in five days, twenty
two hours and thirty minutes. Since then
she has cut the time down to five days,
fifteen hours and twenty-five minutes.
on the trip from Plymouth steaming 2SG2
miles. But during the last year she has
broken this record sailing $3.50 nautical
twenty-seven minutes, which gives an av-
erage of 22.19 knots an hour.
The first great Western record breaking
trip of the Deutschland, when she broke
the single-day record was ended Satur-
day, Sept. l. 1900, when she made the trip
in days IL hours and 20 minutes, and
on one day sailing 5S4 knots. This time
was four hours and fifty-eight minutes
better than the North German Lloyd liner
K a
from Cherbourg, completed Nov Is, 1899,
Der Crosses record for one day as 4s0
knots.
The days runs Of the Deutschland on
this trip were as follows:
From 1855 p. M. Sunday, Aug. 2s. time
Of leaving. to noon Monday, 937 miles;
noon Tuesday. 566 miles; noon Wednes-
day, $40 miles; noon Thursday, $40 miles;
noon Friday, 584 miles; to SPA a. m. Sat
urday, .423 miles. total Of 1850 nautical
miles, having an average speed Of 80 o.
knots an hour, which is sailing over TWEEN
ty-seven miles and hour.
On this last trip from New York to
Plymouth the Deutschland's daily run
was as follows:
AVERAGED TWENTY-FoUR KNOTS.
From Ito p. m. Tuesday to noon Wed
nesday, $50 miles; from noon Wednesday
to noon Thursday, $50 miles; to noon Fri
day, $40 miles; to noon Saturday. 574
miles; to noon Sunday, SIC miles; to Ii D..
m. Sunday night, 226 miles, making an
average run of twenty-feur knots an
hour
This Is simply wonderful But her
owners say it is nothing compared with
what she will do IN the future
On her last trip to Plymouth the Kaiser
Wilhelm der Crosse steamed 3,1S4 nauti-
cal in days IS hours A minutes. or
an average speed of 2279 knots for the en-
tire distance. This was from Cherbourg
While the Deutschland. coming from
Plymouth, traversed 3,072 nautical miles
in days II hours do minutes. or at an
average speed Of 23.32 knots.
The Deutschland made her record trim
westward when she arrived at Plymouth
Sept 1, days. II hours and 20 minutes
from Cherbourg, beating the best for,
mer run completed by the Kaiser VIII
helm der Crosse on Nov. Is of last year
by hours and So minutes. On this trip
she also Won the record for the highest
distance steamed in "A hours. having on
Aug. 81 made 5S4 nautical miles, while
the Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse on her
greatest trip had run but $50 in a single
day. ash4
On her last trip to the eastward the
Deutschland made the run In 5 days, II
hours, 40 minutes, an average of 1892
knots an hour
The best hourly average made by 9th
er ships We're by the, Cunarder Lucania,
which ran from Queenstown to New York
in October, 1884, at a rate Of 22aI knots
an hour, while, the sCampania, OF tho
same line, steaming iI1the same direction,
in August of the folloBIing year, made IN
average Of 2LSS knots for the same pas
sage. So 80
The Deutschland and the Kaiser WI
helm der Crosse look much alike though
the former is somewhat larger Both
have four smokestacks. Their dlmen-
sions are as follows:
Deutschland:
Length, 68415 feet.
Breadth of beam, 81 feet
Depth, AZ feet ~
Net registered tonnage, 10000.
Horse power, 80 600.
Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse:
Length, GAS feet. ,az
Breadth Of beam, &c feet
Depth, 43 feet.
Gross tonnage, 14,000
Horse power, $1,000.