Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-09-11
FOUR-DAY OCEAN TRIP
Lusitania Breaking All Atlantic
Records.
MAY L0P OFF 18 HOURS
Now South of Cape Race, Which She
Spoke This Morning.
KEEPING UP 26-KNOT CLIP
Expected to Make Sandy Hook Light
ship at a. M. Friday@Voyage
of 4 Days, 13 Hours.
KEEPING UP 26-KNOT CLIP

NEW YORK, September ll.-Ploughing
the seas at a speed never before attained
by a passenger steamship, the huge tur-
bner Lusitania of the Cunard line. is
sweeping along at twenty-six knot clip
on her maiden voyage 10 New York and a
, wireless message received from Cape Race
Newfoundland early today shows that she
has broken all transatlantic records. If she.
. maintains her speed through the last thou
sand miles of her trip the hope Of four
day trip across the Atlantic will have
been realized.
The Lusitauia came into tha wireless zone
of Cape Rae. at 90 o'clock today and
telegraphed that she was then - miles
southeast Of the cape, or 1l25 miles from
the Sandy Hook lghtship.
The dispatch today showed that the big
slip had covered 1CJ5 miles of the voyage
IN approximately seventy hours through
swelling seas and murky fogs, which hin
derei her progress, and tnat she had aver
aged trit!e better than twenty-threa and
half knots an hour. speed record never
before reached by a transatlantic steam
ship on a westward voyage.
May Take Is Hours Off Record.
The l.usitania is expected to fash by the
red-hulled Eghtship of Sandy Hook about
clock Friday morning. which would
make her time about days 13 hours. more
than eighteen hours better than til, record
trlp between Queenstown and New York of
Gays, hours and - minutes, made by
the Lucania of the Cunard line in 1894.
With these figures considered it may be
seen that the new liner was In wireless
communication with the American conti-
nent siXty-fve hours after sailing from
The other side. tn Sc remarkable figures
may be difficult to grasp at first but Capt
watts message sets at rest all fears as 10
the vessel S work on the first half of her
trip. She has been vsri;ab.y hitting the
: high spots and tearing along at speed
never before acquired in transatlantic
navigation. Up TO the time the wireless
steamed about 900 miles, and had aver
aged nearly twenty-five knots for that
distance.
British Flag Above German.
The Cunard officers in this city were high
iy elated this morning upon the receipt of
the message from the Lusitana 1t was
evident that the new ship coming up
to expectations. and that with no unfore-
seen contingencies arising she would hang
up transatlantic record that would prob
ably stand for years a banner perform
ance. The British flag would at last float
above the German ensign signal of
the transatlantic speed championship.
The fact that the vessel is doing 50 well
her maiden trip furnishes further cause
for qualification. vessers first voyage
is supposedly worked out under adverse
conditions and at a time when her engines
do not run smoothly when she has
found herself The Lusitania appears 10
have found herself on her trial trip.
New Maritime Era.
The Lusitanas maiden voyage promises
also TO wrest the title of the queen of the
seas from the Deutschland of the Ham
burg-American line. The Deutschland
made voyage from Cherbourg to New
: York in 1909 in five days. e.eveu hours and
hfty-four minutes, over a course 3,O5i miles
In length. at an average speed of - II
knots. With clearing weather indicated the
. big Cunarder should make the last stretch
OF her voyage at top speed, and officials OF
the company say today that when she
edges her way through the Ambrose
chauue- all transatlantic steamship records
vii have been broken. and that "A new era
In the maritime word Will have begun.
All New York viii welcome the mann
moth Lustauia, whose maiden voyage in
quest OF the blue ribbon of the seas prom
is,S 10 tc 50 successful. The LUsitania and
her SISTER ship, the Mauretauia. not yet
completed. stand as the largest ships ever
built. Both Were constructed from the
same model
$4,000 Horse Power.
TIE speed of the LuS!tan'a Is developed
from four screws. rotated by turbine en-
gines Of Gs.Oo0 horsepower. The number
OF furnaces required to keep up this tre-
meudous horsepower is 1872. Four monster
tunnels VIII carry off the smoke from the
furnaces. These tunnels have diameter
Of twenty-four feet and 100 feet in
height. The l.usitania is 100 feet long,
which is much longer than the average
passenger train. She is eighty-eight feet
broad. and were the new wonder of the sea
placed in city street her SIDES would
touch the buildings on both sides OF the
thoroughfare. The Brobdngnagian vessel.
with her coal bunkers filled, carries 1000
tons OF coal. Her displacement on load
drausht is 5000 tons. and she carries
crew OF nearly nine hundred.
The Lusitania has accommodations for
$50 frst-class passengers, 800 second-class
and 300 third-Class passengers.
A dispatch TO the Cunard company from
the captain % the Lus!tania. received this
morning. said that the ship was l.1s9 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 aver
aged about DIGS knots per hour, and viii
have broken all transatlantic speed records
elthgr westbound or eastbound.
No Sign of seasickness.
A dispatch from the Associated Press cor
respondent on board the Lustania by Mar
conf wireless is follows:
ION board steamship LusitanIa via Cape
Associated Press. New York
Tuesday noon 1876 miles from Queens
town; fog, rain, northerly wind. Lusitania
marvel construction comfort. luxury
steadiness. No seasickness. All enthusi-
astic.'
The distance covered by the Lusitana
between Tuesday noon, when the above
dispatch sent, and the point at which
she was reported to the Cunard line at 3
o'clock this morning IS about 455 miles
which distance the new vessel covered in
seventeen hours. indicating that She was
making little better than twenty-sIx knots
Der hour at that time.
More Than Thirty Miles an Hour.
As six nautical miles approximately
eoual TO seven land miles the twenty six