LUSITANIA'A TRIP.
FIRST DAY'S RUNNING. FINE FEAT DESPITE FOG. (By Cable.—Press Associatlen.—Copyright.) (Received 7.42 ami.) LONDON. September 11. The new leviathan Lusitania (33,000 tons) of the Cunard Company, of Liverpool, is making-a splendid maiden trip across the Atlantic, and a fine race with her swift fellow-Cunarder, the Lucania, which left Liverpool on Sunday two and a-half hours in advance of her. As the Lusitania, like all the Cunarders, is fitted with wireless telegraphy, ethergraphic news of her progress is available!. On the first day from Liverpool she was retarded for fully five hours by a thick fog, but notwithstanding this unfortunate handicap, the huge vessel succeeded in steaming 556 nautical miles in the twenty-four hours, giving an average of 23 1-0 nautical miles an hour, without making any allowance for the delay.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 218, 12 September 1907, Page 5
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