The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-09-08
GREAT OCEAN RACE
BETWEEN CUNARDERS
e-.------------
Lusitania Will Attempt
to Break the Atlantic
Record.
IUCANIA ALSO
I IN THE GAME
Two Great Liners Leave Queens
town This Morning for New
York-Lusitania Great
est Ship Ever Built;
Believed the
Fastest.

LIVERPOOL. Sept. 1.-THE people OF
this city and its vicinity to-day concen-
trated their attention on what was con-
sideerd to be an epoch making event-the
departure of the giant Cunard line steam
er Lusi,ania, the latest of the Atlantic
liners. on her maiden voyage to New
York. Additional interest was given TO
the event in that the Lucania left port
ut 4,3l this afternoon about two and n
inlf hours earlier than the Lusitalia,
making possible n trial of speed across
the Atlantic between the swiftest ocean
steamer with reciprocating engines, lying
the British flag, and the largest turbine
steamer. Both the vessels Will eau at
Queenstown tomorrow morning, but the
1,usitania will not enter until the Lucania
has cleared. so the older vessel will have
n start of at least three hours over the
boat which the Cunard company butt
with the view not only of beating the
fastest time of its own ocean grey
hounds, but of regaining for great Britain
the blue ribbon of the Atlantic, which was
lost to Germany decade ago.
OF course the officials of the Cunard line
say that no race is contemplated, but the
engine-room crews of the two vessels
have been busy for week past, getting
everything ready with the expectation
that the engines will be called upon to
90 their best on this occasion. All the
accommodation on both vessels has been
taken. The lists include many notable
people.
All the World Looks On.
All the marino experts of the world
and thousands upon thousands of lay
men will await the conclusion of what
is thought will be the fastest ocean
passage by the largest steamship pro-
PEELED by the greatest marine turbines
Vet constructed
Not "a but "the" leviathan of the
sea is this great liner. beside which
the largest steamships now In the
transatlantic trade seem small. AL
ready. with her bottom fouled
with the clinging mud of the
river Clyde, measured mile tast
gives her speed at twenty-five knots.
and the endurance tests to be run are
expected to demonstrate her capacity
to make this speed day after day on
her regular trips in the service of the
Cunard line.
The product of two years in the
hands of her builders, Messrs. John
Brown & Co., Ltd, of Clydebank, the
great size OF the Lusitania may be
realized when it is known that with
an ordinary amount of cargo and pas
SpnSeFS tne UNFOLDING HltsS VI Slcei
and fittings will weigh more than
forty five thousand tons. She is $50
feet in length. IS feet in breadth and
60 feet in nodded depth, with load
draught of 81 feet 6 inches. The tur-
bine engines which are to drive the
four propellers of the liner al a twen-
ty-fve knot gait are to develop 10000
horse power. or nearly $4,000 horse
power more than the great quadruple
reciprocating engines of the Kaiser
Wilhelm H.. of the North German
Lloyd line, the highest type of their
kind In the world
Other Ships Small.
1t is such figures as these that mark
the Lusitania and her consort. the
Mauritania. which. exactly like her in
every detail, will follow one month
later. as marine objects of the great
est interest. Other hitherto large
liners are dwarfed by comparison. and
nonarchs of ,:the sea for some years
TO come the two tsunarders will be
Wherever they may be sighted they
Will be readily known by their four
big tunnels, each 1916 feet in height
for no other merchant liner has -four
tunnels, each of which. with a diane