Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-09-14
NEW OCEAN RECORD
Lusitania Makes Fast Trip from
Queenstown to New York.
TRIP IN s DAYS AND "a MINUTES
Largest Ship Ahoat Beats Lucania's
A. Time Six Hours.
HOURLY TIME RECORD UNBRoKEN
Honor Still Belongs to Kaiser Wilhelm
II and Deutschland.
La PROVENCE MAKES FAST TIME
French Liner Lowers Record from
Havre to New York Held by
Itself One Hour and
Twelve Minutes.
CURLY TIME RECORD UNBRoKEN
Honor Still Belongs to Kaiser Wilhelm
II and Deutschland.
La PROVENCE MAKES FAST TIM

NEW YORK, Sept. 13.-The giant tur-
bine Dusitania of the Cunard line came
into port today on its maiden voyage with
new record of days and 81 minutes
between Queenstown and New York. The
Lusitania failed to lower the hourly speed
average of 23bs knots made by the Kaiser
Wilhelm II of the North German Lloyd
line, though it covered the distance be-
tween ports In an average Of 2S.01 knots
which is record for maiden voyages
Captain Watt said that when the time
comes for record making, after it's machin-
cry is In thorough order, the Luistania
will be the empress of the seas.
The Dusitania, the largest ship aioat
was given a royal Wlcome on it's arrival
here today and It was a continual ovation
from the time It sped past the Sandy
Hook light vessel and made its way
through the Ambrose channel. the first
ocean vessel to enter the new fair way,
until II was safely warped into its dock.
The Lucania of the Cunard line fleet, which
sailed from Queenstown about an hour
ahead Of the newest ship of the feet was
still unreported at the Sandy Hook light
vessel at 2 o'clock this afternoon. six
hours after the Lusitania had passed. 1t
passed Nantucket at 11:H a. M and will
reach New York at 1880 a. m. Saturday.
Lunitania Not Pushed.
The Lusitania was never pushed to its
top speed during the entire voyage, ac-
cording to its officers. 1t encountered
pleasant weather from port to port and
arrived here almost at the hour designated
ny the directors OF the Cunard line. e. II
Cunard. director of the line. who made
49,. NfIa.- ~.
Lusitania worked perfectly and not once
during the entire trip was the ship slowed
down. The Cunard people are more than
satisEad. What this ship will do in the
future may be judged from what It has
already done. No ship makes its best
time on it's maiden voyage. As to the re-
ports that the ship was delayed by green
stoxers I know nothing shall make nc
suggestions for any changes In the Mau.
tania, the sister ship of tho Lusitania,
which probably will make it's maiden voy-
age in October. We had two days of In
termittept fog and one day partly foggy."
Vernon II, Brown, American representa-
tive OF the, Cunard line. said. "The Lust
tania burned considerably less than l.o0C
tons of coal a day in making % knots
,rhe engines worked perfectly ana there
trip. When going at high speed the screwE
made 1856 revolutions a minute"
Records of Ocean Trips.
Sixty-one years ago the little steamship
Europa of the Cunard line. with it's old
fashioned engines, crossed the Atlantic
from Liverpool to New York in II days and
hours. Its performance was heralded to
the four quarters OF the earth. for the
Europa had broken the record of 14ih days
made by the steamer Great Western eight
years before, in 1855. With the Europa's
voyage began the lasting contest for the
supremacy of the sea, which has led tc
the building of the feet Lusltania.
The Lucania's record of five days, sever
hours and twenty-three minutes, made from
Queenstown to New York In 1894. was not
broken until the Lusitania arrived today
The Lucania on that trip made an average
speed OF a.61 knots over a course of 2,T'
miles. While tue Lucania was holding
the Queenstown record the North German
Lloyd and American lines began to battle
for the western record from Southampton
TO New York, which was held for three
years between 1898 and 1895 by the steam
ships Paris, New York and St. Paul of the
American line. The st. Paul in 1895 made
n distance OF 1850 miles In six days and
thirty-one minutes.
Kaiser , Sss a Mark.
Then the North Tserman Lloyd company
put over the Kaiser Wilhelm Der Crosse, the
first OF the greater ocean steamships now
traversing the Atlantic and the new vessel
I'm 1897 became the marine wonder of the
world, when II hung up a record or hve
days, twenty-five hours and thirty-hve
minutes from Southampton to New York
The big Kaiser. as II is Familiarity called In
shipping circles. created a new record In
1899. when It steamed from Cherbourg
France, 10 New York. a distance of 8,O5(
miles In hve days, eighteen hours and hf-
teen minutes This record was lowered in
the same year by the Kaiser TO Ave days
seventeen hours and thirty-seyen minutes
The Hamburg-American line captured the
blue trophy OF the sea from its rival in
1870. with the steamship Deutschland. which
made the distance from Cherbourg to New
York in ave days, twelve hours and
twenty-nine minutes. The Deutschland
lowered les own record by six minutes in
1901. The Kron Prins Wilhelm. the new
ship Of the North German Lloyd line
slipped across the Atlantic In 1902 in hvs
days. eleven hours and fifty-seven minutes
which was the banner record until the next
year. when the Deutschland again wrested
the hon0rs as the fastest ship afioat by
clipping on three minutes from the record
time OF the Kron PrinE Wilhelm. The
Deutschland made on this remarkable
voyage an average speed OF 29l5 knots.
La Provence Makes Fast Time.
The transatlantic steamship record from
Havre to New York. which has been held
by the French line steamer La Provene,
for year. was broken by that steamer
today when II arrived at New York. Ls
Provence completed the run across the
Ions course OF $40 miles from Havre to-
day In six days one hour and u minutes
The previous record for that course held
by the La Provence was six DAYS two
hours and nfteen minutes. La Province.
average speed for the entire run ended
gv,.ay aas 22-oS nautical miles per hour.
The Lusitania's passengers included Mrs
Potter Palmer. Robert Bslfour, NJ. p, Rob
ert 0Oelet, Mrs. Richard Croker and ssvera