Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1907-11-23
Cunarder Mauretanla Reaches
New York With Twelve Mil
lion Five Hundred thousand
Dollars in Gold,
HEAD WINDS DEFEAT
ATTEMPT ON RECORD
Three Thousand Mile Battle
With Storm Swept Seas
Lasts Five Days, Five Hours
and Ten Minutes,
IBy Morning journal Special Leased wire.


New York, Nov 22.--Poking her
nose through a dense curtain OF fog
that hid the coast. her top masts lost
from definite view in the envel )p-
ment, the biggest and most luxuri0 Is
ship ever launched on any sea fit
ished I'm safety her bridal voyage when
at 1903 a. m. today the Cunard line
steamship Mauretania came TO anchor
off the Sandy Hook lightship, five
days. five hours and ten minutes from
Queenstown.
Bearing a fortune of sf2,50O. 600 In
gold for the money market Of the
west, she fought her way through
three thousand miles of storm-swept
ocean, battling every mile of the
course to meet and defeat the worlds
transa tlantic speed record of four
days, 1s hours and forty minutes,
created and held by her sister ship.
the Lusitania. Headwinds and tu-
multuous cross seas baffled the at
tempt. yet the Mauretania won the
coveted right of fly one blue ribbon"
at her peak. on Thursday, Novem-
ber 81. Captain Ritchard drove the
huge ship ga knots t67l miles) by
the favor of shift i'm the wind u
northeast, six knots better than the
best days run of the Lusitania and
smashing all records OF marine.
The average speed OF the passage
was 22.21 knots. or ease miles an
hour. Her average speed on her rec.
ord day run of 624 Knots, was g5.s3
miles on hour. Her poorest days aV-
erage was 20.Sl miles on hour from
noon of the 18th. Captain Richard
believes that in a fair weather passage
he can beat the Lusitania from coast
TO coast
The Mauretania is 979 feet in length
over all. two feet longer than the
Lusitania; has a beam of sS feet; a
depth OF feet: is 1856 feet high from
keel to funnel tops, and 2i6 feet from
keel to masthead; draws 81 feet 3
inches of water (mean); has a ton
mage displacement of $4,000 an indl-
Gated horse power Of 10000; was
launched on the Tyne (England), sep
tember 20. 1906, carries crew OF
SOC odd Officers and men, has room
for $50 passengers In the first class
cabin; 500 in the second class, ana
1900 in the steerage and cost $I,50O,-
600.
The s12.5OO,O 900 gold brought by the
Mauretanla Is said to be the largest
consignment of specie ever carried Dy
ship. Ii was conveyed TO the Nessei
at Queenstown in six specially guard-
ed cars
THE fact that even a vessel of the
superlative size and build and power
OF the Mauretania il to a certain OK
tent at the mercy of the elements was
born I'm upon the liners passengers
when. on the forenoon Of Monday; heT
second day out, she labored so in head
seas and in the face OF an adverse gale
that dishes were thrown from dining
room tables and seasickncss made
prisoners by the score In cabins and
steerage. At o'clock I'm the after
noon Captain Pritehard ordered the
engines stopped and let go two OF hlt
anchors In the meantime the vessel
rode out of the storm. but not Win
out mishap. The battering force of the
seas stove a forward starboard port
and before the damage could be re-
paired the floor Of storeroom in the
hold was under two feet of salt water