Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-09-12
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maiden voyage to New York and q
wireless message received from cape
Race. \. F., early Wednesday shows
that the Lusitana has broken all rec
ords for a transatlantic steamer. II
she maintains her speed through the
last 1000 miles, of her trip, the nope
of a four-day trip across the AtlaItlc
will have been realized.
The Lusitania came into the wireless
zone of the Cape Race at 90 O'CLOCK
Wednesday and telegraphed that she
was then oo3 miles southeast OF the
Cane at the time or 1l23 miles from
the Sandy Hook lightship. The dis
patch showed that the big snip h'n
covered 1855 miles of the voyage IN APP
proXimately 30 hours through swell
ing seas and murl<y fOss which hlndercd
her progress and that she had averaged
2 tritie better than % knots an hour,
speed record never before reached
by a transatlantic steamship.
The Lusitania is expected to flash
by the red-huled lightship off Sandy
Hook about l o'clock Friday morning
which would make the time or the
VOYAGE about four days and Is hours
more than Is hours better than the rec
ord trip between Queenstown ana Nc"
York, five days. seven hours and % min
utes made by the Lucania OF the Gun
ard Line in 1894
The I.usitania's maiden voyG &c prom
| iscs also to wrest the title of the queen
of the seas from the Deutschland OF the
Hamburg American Line. The Deul-
schland made a voyage in 1893 in flV2
DAYS. II hours and 81 minutes over Il
course of 3U5i miles in length at an
average speed of 23.15 knots. WITH
clearing weather indicated the big Gun
harder should make the last stretch
of her voyage at top speed and OH
Gals Of the company stated WedneS-
dav that when the Lusitania edges hel
way through the New York narroWS
| all transatlantic steamship records
will be broken and that new era II
| the maritime world will have COM
Imenced.
| All New York will welcome the man
| mnth I,usitania, whose maiden voyage
| in quest of the blue ribbon of the sea:
rromisod to be successful. The Lusi
| tania and her sister ship, the Maure
/ a.,
| largest ships ever built. Both ship
were constructed from the same models
Tho sreed of the Lusitania is developed
from four screws rotated by turbine en-
pines Ct 6S 900 horse power. Sixty
leiph, thousands horses placed head t
ltail in single line would reach from
New York to Philadelphia distance
of 90 miles. Harnessed 90 abreast Their
| Of nnWprtl1l
Tho number Of furnaces required t
keep up tins tremendous horse power l
100 and hundred of tons of coal are re
oured during the voyage. -Four mon
}, ster tunnels will carry off the smok
from the furnaces and through each "
these steel stacks two railroad train
could easily pass each other. The run
nels have a diameter of II feet an
are 155 feet in height.
, The Lusitania is 100 feet long Whicl
is much longer than the average pas
, senger train. She is So feet abroad
The mammoth vessel. with her Goa
bunkers filled. carries 1000 tons Q
coal Her displacement on loa
draught is $4,000 tons and she carrie
, a crew of nearly 900.
The Lusitania has accommodation
for $50 first class passengers. 500 sec
| ond class passengers, and 1900 thir
class passengers.
A dispatch to the Cunard compan
from the captain of the Lusitanla re
ceived Wednesday morning states tina
the ship is 1889 miles from Sand
Hook and is expected to reach Sann
Hook at 40 a. NJ Friday. If sh
does arrive at that time she will hav
2 averaged about 23.6S knots an hou
: and will have broken all transit lanti
Y speed records either westbound .
e eastbOund
e A dispatch from the Associate
Press correspondent on board the Lu
D sitania by Marconi wireless, reads d
follows:
On board steamship Lusitania vi
: Cape Race, ~ F.. Sept. II.
Associated Press New York.
a Tuesday noon 1885 miles fro!
n Queenstown: fog, rain. northerl
0 winds Lusitania marvel Of construc
e ton, comfort, luxury. steadiness, n
d sea sickness; all enthusiastic"
= The distance covered by the Lusi
n tania between Tuesday noon when TIL
il above dispatch was sent and the poir
f at which she was reported to the Gun
ard Line at ) o'clock Wednesda
G morning is about AS miles which dis
s lance the new vessel covered in ]
d hours. Indicating that she was maxim
e a little better than IS knots an hot
d at that time
TO BUILD BIGGER SHIP.