The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1907-09-14
new TURBINE liner
SMASHING RECORDS
GIANT SHIP SPEEDING TOWARD
NEW YORK At A RATE NEVER
EQUALED BEFORE.
MAY CLIP 9 HOURS
OFF OCEANS MARK
Vessel Is Averaging 23R Knots an
Hour Through Swelling Seas and
Murky Fogs-Expected to Reach
Sandy Hook Friday Morning.

New York, Sept. 12.-Plowing
through the seas at speed never be-
fore attained by passenger steam
ship, the giant turbiner Lusitania of
the Cunard line is sweeping along at
a 25-knot clip on her maiden voyage
to New York and wireless message
received from Cape Race, N. F., We'd
nesday shows that thus far in the voy-
age she has broken all transatlantic
records. If she maintains her speed
through the last thousand miles of her
trip the hope of four-day trip across
the Atlantic will have to be real
lied.
Sets New Average Record.
The Lusitania came into the wire
less zone of Cape Race at $50 o'clock
Wednesday and telegraphed that she
was then 225 miles southeast of the
cape, or 1.125 miles from the Sandy
Hook lightship. The dispatch showed
that the big ship had covered 1,655
miles of the voyage in approximately
70 hours, through swelling seas and
murky fogs, which hindered her prog
ress, and that she had averaged a.
trif1e better than 23B knots an hour
"a speed record never before reached
by transatlantic steamship on a
westward voyage.
Expected Off Sandy Hook Friday.
The Lusitania is expected to flash
by the red-hulled lightship off Sandy
Hook about 1880 o'clock Friday morn
ing, which would make the time of the
voyage about 4 days and % hours.
more than nine hours better than the
record trip between Queenstown and
New York of days, hours and IS
minutes made by the Lucania of the
Cunard line in 1894.
To Wrest Laurels from Deutschland.
The Lusitania's maiden voyage
promises also to wrest the title of
the queen of the seas from the
Deutschland of the Hamburg American
line. The Deutschland made voyage
from Cherbourg to New York in 1903
in 5 days II hours and. 81 minutes
over course 1854 miles in length, at
an average speed of 2315 knots.
All New York to Welcome Ship.
All New York will welcome the
mammoth Lusitania, whose maiden
voyage in quest of the blue ribbon of
the seas promises to be so success.
full.
The Lusitania and her sister ship,
the Mauritania, not yet completed,
stand as the largest ships ever built.
Both ships were constructed from the
same models. The speed of the Lusita.
mia is developed from four screws no.
tated by turbine engines of $4,000
horsepower,
Dispatch from Ships Captain.
A dispatch to the Cunard company
from the captain of the Lusitania. re-
ceived Wednesday morning. stated
that the ship was 1889 miles from
Sandy Hook and is expected to reach
Sandy Hook at 4:3O a. m. Friday
If she does arrive at that time she
will have averaged about 23.6s knots
! per hour, and will have broken all
transatlantic speed records, either
west bound or east bound
No Seasickness on Board
A dispatch from correspondent or
board the 1usitanja, by wireless
. says:
Tuesday. noon, 1,136 miles from
Queenstown; fog; northerly wind. L,l
sitania marvel of construction, com
fort, luxury, steadiness. No sea sick
ness. All enthusiastic"
The distance covered by the Lusita
mia between Tuesday noon when the
above dispatch was sent and the point
at which she was reported to the
Cunard line at five o'clock is about
ass miles, which distance the new YES
sci covered in II hours, indicating
that she was making a little better