Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1909-08-19
OCEAN RECORDS
Being Lowered
TRANSATLANTIC TRIP
NOW IN FOUR DAYS.
Progress in Shipbuilding Wildly
Shown in Records Of Ocean
Travel Since Early Days Of the
Steamship.

Steamshlp.
The performances of the Mauretania
on her trip eastward bound, ending
June 81, when the distance of 1887
nautical miles was accomplished In
days, II hours, 81 minutes. or at the
rate OF 25.SS nauticle miles per hour,
breaks the record for the transit OF
the ocean in the direction Of the Old
World, though the record Of the sis
tership, the Lusitania, still stands for
the homeward VOYAGE days. 10
hours, from August 10 to 20, 1905.
This year II is the Maurctania that
has been doing the rccord.breaking.
On February she accomplished the
1884 miles to Queenstown In days,
20 hours and 81 minutes, at an aver
age rate Of 1852 knots per hour; on
March 2 this time was reduced to 4
days, 20 hours fat (25.2S knots); on
March 22 the figures were. lowered an.
other notch to days, IS hours, 25
minutes (25.6l knotsy. on May 10 the
great ship beat herself again by IA
minutes, going at the rate Of 1851
knots. On this voyage, from Thurs.
day to Sunday, the Mauretania main.
tanned a 2G.3.knot gait for three days,
constituting new record for so long
a run. June 81 the new figures hung
up to the credit of the flyer were 4
days, II hours, q minutes (25.SS
knots per hour. AS for the westward
voyage. while the Maurctania Is very
slightly slower than her sister vessel
she made the distance In 4 days, l6
hours, SO minutes on the journey end.
ing May 90 tat a rate OF 1862 knots)
which is 10 minutes better than her
accomplishment of February last
when days. II hours and minutes
was the time required. In one day OF
her westward trip, June CT, she &c,
complished 673 knots.
The knot and the nautical mile are
virtually synonymous; considered as
a length rather than as rate OF
speed the knot is $3.50 feet, or 1,l5l
miles. A distance of 673 knots OF
nautical miles, then. is equal to 775
miles. almost exactly. The rate OF
1858 knots per hour maintained by the
Mauretania for 80 days is equivalent
to 3OH miles, as we ordinarily under
stand the term. joe $40
The first transatlantic steamship re
cord worth considering was made by
the Britannia, OF the Cunard Line. In
1910. She took exactly IA days from
Liverpool to New York at the rate OF
Sh% knots per hour--a rate which
would make u Delaware River excur
sion steamer nowadays blush for
shame. The Britannia was POI feet
long 1.-THE Sirius of 1887 was IFS fect)
with gross tonnage OF 1899. an indi
Gated horse power of $40, and when
pushed could do 1914 knots per hour
! Compare this with the Lusitania's 76C
feet, gross tonnage of $4,000 $4,000
horse power and trial speed of q
knots. The tonnage OF the modern
leviathan is almost 80 times that Of
the cumbersome ark OF 1910. and hel
horse power is 90 times as great.
| In 1856 along came the Persia, alst
OF the Cunard Line, which made Tho
journey between New York ant
Queenstown in 0 days, / hour, 45 min
utes. She was $40 feet in length, witt
u gross tonnage OF 5000, horsepowe'
1000, and speed Of 1873 knots. He
record stood TIL in 1862 the Scott,
OF the same line, went from Liverpool
to New York In days and 22 hour
l-l3 knots an hour. The Scotia wa
only three feet longer than the Persia
but her horsepower was 900 create
and she was more than half kno
faster. In 1869 the City of Brussel
wore the broom at the masthead b.
virtue of making the Queenstown tril
In days, 22 hours and 3 minutes.
In 1873 the Baltic reduced the fir
ures by two hours; In 1875 the Berlil
lowered them still further to Z days
10 hours and As minutes.
The successive reductions in tn
New York.Queenstown records, east
ward or westward, since that yea
have been:
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