Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-12
is
SPEEDMARVEL
NEW LINER is BREAKING ALL
RECORDS
sMAsHEs TIME OF TRANsATLAN-
TIC TRAVEL
cunard Vessel Communicates by Wire
less, and Is Coming Toward
America at Lively
Rate
BY Associated Press.

NEW YORK, Sept Ill o ONiieAi "a
liner Lusitania, which is racing with the
I,ucania. was reported by wireless via
Cane Race, 1888 miles east of Sandy HOOK
at 3 o'clock D. M today. 1t is figured that
the Lucania should reach Sandy Hook bar
about midnight Friday night. The Lusi-
tania is expected to beat her by ABOUT
twenty-one hours.
The great turbine steamer Is racing
along at 25-knot slip this afternoon on
the final stretch of her maiden voyage TO
New York and wireless dispatches from
Cane Race. N. F., early today indicate
that she probably will arrive here some
time between midnight and o'clock Fri
day morning, breaking all transatlantic
ocean records.
CAPE RACE, N. F.. Sept. 1.-THE
Cunard line steamer Lusitania, whose
maiden voyage across the Atlantic Is ex-
pected to eclipse all ocean records, came
in touch through the wireless telegraph
with the American continent early today.
$50 O'Clock this morning message was
received from the steamer saying that the
vessel was 225 miles southeast OF cape
Race at that hour.
The indicated position of the Lusitania
is about 1125 miles from Sandy HOOK SO
that the big steamer, If she can maintain
the rate of twenty-five knots with whlcn
she Is credited, will reach the entrance 10
day. which would make the time of the
voyage about four days and eighteen
hours. more than thirteen hours better
than the record trip between Queenstown
and New York. Five days. seven hours
and twenty-three minutes. held by the
Cunarder Lucania, is now the record.
To Break Records
such time. If made, also will wrest the
host Atlantic record from the Germans,
now held by the Hamburg-American
steamer Deutschland. When heard from
this morning the Lusitania had Travelled
about 1865 of the ESQ miles bewteen
Queenstown the New York, in approx
nately seventy hours.
This would make her average speed up
to that point a trifle better than 231s KNOTS
per hour. 1t is known that log waterway
interfered with the speed of the Lusitania
for many hours after she left Queenstown
her speed at times being reduced to twenty
knots. and that since then she must nave
steamed much faster than twenty-thrce
and half knots to secure the average.
The run from Cape Race down the coast
is generally made at top speed, as condi-
lions are favorable, so that shipping men
who learned of the Lusitania's position
this morning confidently predicted mt
barring accidents, the Lusitania would be
reaches port early Friday
NEW YORK, Sept. ia dispatch to
the Cunard company from the Lusltanla'
received this morning. stated that the siip
was 11g0 miles from Sandy HOOK ana eA-
pected to reach Sandy Hook at 4;SO a. m.
Friday. A dispatch of the Associated Press
correspondent on board the Lusitanla oy
Marconi wireless reads as follows:
"On board steamer Lusitania, via Cape
Race. N. F., Sept. u.--Associated Press,
New York: Tuesday noon, 1lS6 miles from
Queenstown; fog, rain, northerly WINDS.
Lusitania marvel construction, com1ort,
luxury. steadiness. No seasickness. All
enthusiastic"
The distance covered by the Lusitania
between Tuesday noon, when the above
dispatch was sent, and the point at which
she was reported to the Cunard line at
o'clock this morning is about 455 miles,
which distance was made in seventeen
hours. indicating that she was making a
little better than twenty-six knots per
hour at that time.
For the past three years everyone in
terested in shipping has been watching
the express steamers building for the
Cunard line. Ever since the pioneer
s.Brittania,'' with her 1154 tons and
speed os SJk knots, made her initial voy-
age in 1910 this company has gone stead
doing the previous one, until In the
s.Iusitanfa," launched June Z, 1906, the
very acme of marine architecture was
reached.
The dimensions of this mammoth con-
vey but vaguely her size. The figures
are as follows: Length. $50 feet; breadth,
So feet; depth (moulded), 60 feet; gross
tonnage, $500 tons; displacement ton
mage. $1,000; load draught, 81 feet inches;
1for of
tunnels, "a feet; height of masts, PIG
feet
Some idea of her immense bulk can be
had from the statement that If the St.
Paul building, New York city, with its
sos feet of altitude, were placed on top
of the Park Row building with its $50
feet and the Lusitania placed on end
alongside she would oyertop their COM
bined height by more than 100 feet.
Weight $4,000 Tons
AT the time of her launching into the
CLYDE her hull was over 5000 tons, a
figure which exceeds all previous launch
ing weights. Completed in engine, boil
er and passenger accommodation, this
weight is Increased almost 100 per cent,
while when ready for sea with water in
her boilers. her stores aboard and her
70O0-ton bunkers filled with coal, her
weight without cargo VIII De approx
mately 5000 tons.
In the modern ship the first structural
work after the keel plate is laid is the
double bottom. The keel plate of the
Lusitania is feet wide and ga inches
thick, and is flush outside with the bot
tom of the ship. Associated with this fiat
keel is a vertical keel five feet high ana
one inch thick, and to this vertebra are
attached directly or indirectly the frames
and beams which make up the skeleton
of the leviathan.
The double bottom is divided by the
vertical keel and transverse frames into
compartments in which water ballast
may be carried well round the turn of the
bilge, so that should the bilge keels be
torn away and the hull pierced the en-
tering water would be confined within the
inner and outer bottoms. This is only
one precaution in the direction of pro-
curing unsinkabiity.
The lower deck is made completely
watertight. Below it are the lower or
lop and orlop decks, and above are the
main, upper. shelter. promenade, upper
promenade and boat-nine decks in all
II is necessary, of course, that there
should be means of communication be.
tween one water-tight compartment AND
those contiguous, and on the Lusitania,
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