The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-13
New Turbine Cunarder Fails
to Beat Runs of
German Ships.
AVERAGED 1901 KNOTS
Voyage From Queenstown Made
in 5 Days, 81 Minutes..FOg
Prevented Faster Time.-Ex.
pected to Do Much Bet.
ter on Her Next Trips.

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NEW YORK. Sept. 13.-A new
steamship record between a European
port and New York was made by the
Cunard lines new giant turbine ship,
the Lusitania, which arrived here to-
day. The Lusitania left Queenstown.
he nearest transatlantic port to New
: erik, at 1910 p. m. Sunday n ar
rived off the Sandy Hook lightship at
sos a. m. today, making the time for
the trip : days 81 minutes. This is 9
hours and 20 minutes better than the
previous Queenstown-New York record
of 5 days. Z hours and % minutes held
by the Lucania of the same line.
While the Lusitania has made a new
record for the time a passenger Is &C
tually on board ship, she has not
beaten the average speed per hour
record, both the Kaiser Wilhelm H.,
which has made 2S.5S knots per hour
from New York to Plymouth and the
Deutschland with a record of 23.5l
knots per hour to Plymouth, having
made better time. The Lusitania's
average speed per hour on her maiden
voyage was 23.01 knots.
lie weather btdl NIiC
for fog that was frequently encoun-
tered during the trip, and in which
the engines had to be slowed down,
she would have smashed all ocean
records by hours. That she will wrest
the record from the Germans is now
regarded as only a matter of luck in
having fair weather, for the Lusitania,
though stiff in every joint because new,
has proved herself to be the fastest
ship af1oat.
At the hour when the ship was due
to arrive at the Sandy Hook lightship
a thick haze o%verhung the lower bay
which prevented the marine observer
at Sandy Hook from seeing either the
liner or the lightship.
The log of the Lusitdnia gives her
time of passage as 8 days and % min
utes and her time Of arrival of the
sandy Hook lightship as sos a. m. Her
Yverage speed was 23.J1 knots per hour,
and the days runs were by miles; 556
SIS. $40, 593 and 4S3 to the hghtshlp, a
total distance of 2,lS2 miles.
The new ship was decked with fags
and bunting when she made her APP
pearance off Sandy look this morning
her four big red tunnels lending color
to the picture, which was, marred by
the prevailing haze. A good sight OF
the beautiful vessel was had from
shore for only a short while. her
passengers lined the ratings ana
crowded the different decks OF the
large vessel, waving handkerchiefs ana
American and British flags. The ma
rine observatory stations on shore
dipped their flags in salue, other vessels
in the lower bay blew their whistles
in greeting, and the Lusitania's plue
ensign was constantly lowered ana
raised again in acknowledgment or n
reception given her. She steamed slow
Nv m the bay for the new Ambrose
channel. dug especially for vessels OF
great draft, and which she was the
FIRST to use in entering the port OF New
York.
Here are the dimensions of the Lusi-
+ania. Length. 100 feet; breadth, Sc feet;
depth to boat deck, so feet; draught utuiy
loaded), 81 feet 6 inches; displacement on
load draft, $500 tons; horsepower OF tur-
bine engines. $1,000; height to top OF run
nels. 155 feet; height TO top of trucks. 2lo
feet. passenger accommodations, first
cabin. $50; second class, 800, and third
class, 1900; crew, 800 to 900.
Sixty-one years ago the little steamship
Europa, of the Cunard line, with her old
fashioned engines, crossed the Atlantic
from Liverpool to New York In eleven
DAYS and three hours. Her performance
was heralded TO the four quarters of the
enrrh, for the Europa had broken the
record Of fourteen and one-half days, made
by the steamer Great Western eight years
before, in 1898. With the Europa's voyage
began the lasting contest for the suprem-
acy Of the sea which has led to the build
ing Of the fleet Lusitania.
HB..i. III. I aaaaRfn uFua hn1dtnu thf
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 1896, by the steam
ships Paris, New York and st. Paul, OF
the American line. The st. Paul in lSg
made the voyage from southampton L
New York. Il distance of 1850 miles, in So
days aud thirty-one minutes, Then tn
North German Lloyd Company put Owe
the Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse, the frs
of the greater ocean steamships now ira
versing the Atlantic, and the new yesse
in 1887 became the marine wonder of tn
world when she hung up a record of fVi
days twenty-five hours and thirty-fivi
minutes from Southampton to New York
The big Kaiser as she is famiiiari:
record in 1899, when she steamed from
Cherbourg, France, to New York. a dis
lance of 1850 miles, in five days eighteen
hours and fifteen minutes.
The record was lowered In the same yea
by the Kaiser to five days seventeen hour
and thirty-seven minutes. The Hamburg
American line captured the blue trophy o
tine sea from her rival In 1900 with tn
steamship Deutschland, which made tn
distance from Cherbourg to New York 1
five days twelve hours and twenty-nin
minutes The Deutschland lowered he
own record by six minutes in 1901. TIL
Kronprinz Wilhelm, the new ship of tn
North German Lloyd line, slipped acros
the Atlantic in 1902 in five days eleve
hours and hfty-seven minutes, which wa
tho hopnnr faRDr1 until tho nnXf wa
when the Deutschland again wrested tn
honors as the fastest ship afloat by clip
ping off three minutes from the recor
time Of the Kronprinzs Wilhelm. TIL
Deutschland made on this remarkable voy
age an average speed of 23.15 knots.