The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-10-12
SHE CERTAINLY
BEAT THE DUTCH
LuSitania Hailed Queen of the
Seas as She Steamed
Up the Harb0r.
DETAILS OF THE VOYAGE
PROBABLE BEGINNING OF AN
ERA OF TURBINES.

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g British navy Welsh coal each day @
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9 obtained. On Tuesday night the %
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(. efforts. The next day the Lusi- .
g tania broke all record by reeling 9,
g off 617 knots, and made an hourly Z.
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New Yord, Oct. I1.-Four days. nine
teen hours of f1fty-twO minutes out
from Queenstown, with every trans
Atlantic speed record in her possession.
the Cunard liner Lusitania swept by
Sandy Hook lightship at III a. m. to-
day. after a pause off the bars until
daylight, steamed slowly up the harbor
to receive the recognition of her right
to the title of Queen of the Sea.
Three New Records.
Three records were written down in
her log book, two of them wrested
from the great German rival of the
Cunard, and one from the swift I,u-
cania of her own line. They were the
shortest time from any European port
| to New York; the fastest average speed
for any transatlantic voyage, 2399
nautical miles per hour, and the long
est daily run. 671 nautical miles
| Translated into land miles, her speed
| average for the run was 1880 miles an
hour. Her achievement is a triumph
for British shipbuilding and sailors
| and may mark the passing of the old
fashioned reciprocating engine and the
beginning of the universal installation
of the turbines.
The Former Holders.
The records which she has broken
| were:
That held by Kaiser Wilhelm II Of
the North German Lloyd line, which
crossed from New York TO Plymouth
at an average speed of 23.5S knots. as
compared with the Lusitanias 1893
That held by the Hamburg Ameri-
can liner Deutschland, of five days
eleven hours and ffty-four minutes
| from CheTbourg to New York
That held by the Cunard liner Lu-
! cania, which crossed from Queenstown
to New York i'm five days seven hours
and tWenty-three minutes.
| Besides, the Lusitania has broken her
own record of five days fifty-four min
utes, made on her maiden trip from
Queenstown.
The Lusitania in her daily runs ex-
ceeded in two days the record of sol
knots, previously held by the Deutsch-
| land.
SchWab Not DoWncast.
Gustav Schwab, general manager of
the North German Lloyd steamship
line here, discussing the trip of the
Lusitania, said:
The Lusitania is undoubtedly a
wonderful steamship and has made a
| splendid record. / am going around
today to congratulate Vernon H
Brown of the Cunard line. and Incl
dentally hand him the blue ribbon
| which the North German Lloyd has
held for several years OF course, it
is with regret that the North German
Lloyd parts with the blue ribbon, sig
nificant of speed superiority, but in
giving it up we have the consolation
| of knowing that there is but one
steamship in the world faster than the
! Kaiser Wilhelm II of our line. 1t is bet
ter to have held and lost a record than
never to have held one"