The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-11
LUSiTANIA AT
DOCK EARLY
TODAY
Is First Four-day Trans.
atlantic Liner--R Records
That She Broke.

NEW YORK, Oct. 11.-Four days
nineteen hours and ffty-two minute
out from Queenstown, with yer.
transatlantic speed record in her pos
session, the Cunard liner Lusitanif
swept by Sandy Hook lightship at IL
"a. m. today, ard after a pause off th'
bar to await daylight. she steamed
slowly up the harbor to receive thu
recognition OF her right TO the title
of Queen of the Sea.
Three records were written down III
bier logbook, two of them wrested from
the great German rivals of the Cunard
and one from the swift Lucania of her
own line. They were the shortest time
from any European port to New York;
the fastest average speed for any
transatlantic voyage, 1899 nautical
miles per hour, and the longest daily
run, 617 nautical miles. Translated into
land miles her speed average Tor the
run was 27.60 miles an
Her achievement is a triumph for
British shipbuilders and sailors, and
may mark the passing of the old-fasn-
toned reciprocating engine and the be-
ginning of the universal installation OF
the turbines which have made 1t pos
sible for this ship to carry all records
by the board. The records which she
has broken were:
That held by Kaiser Wilhelm IL, OF
the North German Lloyd line, which
Crossed from New York to Plymouth at
an average speed of 1858 knots as
compared with the Lu~sitania's 1888.
That held by the Hamburg-American
liner Deutschland of 8 days IL hours
and "a minutes, from Cherbourg to
New York.
That held by the Cunard liner Luz
cania, which crossed from Queenstown
to New York il 5 days Z hours and %
minutes.
Besides, the Lusitania has broken
her own record of 5 days 81 minutes
made on her maiden trip from Queens
town.
>The Lusitania in her daily runs ex-
ceeded on two days the record of SOL
knots previously held by the Deutsch-
land. Counting the days from noon
to noon the runs were as follows:
Sunday, Al; Monday, $50; Tuesday,
COS; Wednesday, SIT; Thursday, 500,
and from noon Thursday to BY a.
M. Friday. 1924 miles.
The. new Cunarder is the first -four
day boat to enter New York harbor.
having completed the passage in less
thar five days, shortening the record
held by the Lucania by more than
eleven hours.
Had the L~usitania's arrival been
timed so that she would reach New
York in the daylight hours her passen-
gers might have been landed at the
4 - --;ALs, Gxra laxrc oftar ma GSinR
Daunt's Rock. AS it was, she was
compelled to anchor off Sandy Hook
bar and wait for a safer passage up
the new Ambrose channsl from the
bar to the Narrows.
She remained at anchor until TIL
a. M, when she crossed the a and
moved slowly and carefully up h ne"
and as vet uncompleted channel, ano
came to anchor off the quarantine sta
ton on Staten Island. Her arrival was
greeted with the hoarse salute OF every
steam craft then in that vicinity. Fol
an hour the giant ship swung idly al
her anchor, while the port physician
made his hasty examination to deter
mine if any contagious diseases were
hidden among her many oil
passengers. This completed In took
up her run to the dock, moving Slowly
and majestically up the harbor amid
the salutes of many steam craft, te
which she responded with the hoarse
roar of her own siren.
LONDON, Oct. 1.-THE performances o.
the Cunard Line steamer Lusitania II
crossing the Atlantic from Daunts Rock
near Queenstown, to Sandy Hook LightshiI
in about four days and twenty hours, Il
hailed with delight throughout Great Brit
ain, this being, as one writer puts 1t, I
proud day for Mrs. Brittania."
All the evening papers publish a long &C
count of the passage and comment witt
satisfaction on Great Britain's regainini
the mercantile marine supremacy, whicl
was lost to Germany a decade ago. II
make victory complete they ask that thu
Lusitania repeat on her homeward jour
ney what she accomplished on her outwar
passage. Experts express the opinion tina
she is able to still further cut the time be
tween Daunts Rock and Sandy Hook Light
ship, saying that she will not have an.
difficulty in averaging the twenty-four ant
one-half knots required to gain the full
government subsidy.