HISTORIC ATLANTIC CROSSINGS.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 152, 30 June 1927, Page 8

HISTORIC ATLANTIC CROSSINGS.

SINCE COLUMBUS AND THE

PILGRIM FATHERS,

In connection with Captain Lindbergh s trans-Atlantic llight, the National Geographic Society gave a summary 01 some important Atlantic crossings:— . Columbus: Sailed from Palos, Spain, August 3. 1402: arrived at San Salvador, October 12: time elapsed. 69 days. Pilgrim Fathers: Sailed from Plymouth. England. September o\ ltU); arrived Cape Cod. November 9;. time elapsed. 60 days. . Dreadnaught: Yankee clipper ship, sailed from New \ork, June 10, lco , arrived Cape Clear, Ireland, on June -•>, time elapsed, 12 days. Savannah: First steamship to ciO== Atlantic, from Savannah, Ga., to Liverpool, leaving Savannah May 1.1, lolJ, crossing in 27 days. Great Eastern: Famous early steamship. sailed from Needles, off Southampton/England. June 17, I860; arrived -New York. June 2S: time elapsed, 11 days. Mauretania (record holder): ..ailed from New York to Cherbourg, September. 1924; time elapsed. 3 days 1 hour J

minutes. . British dirigible R-34: mailed lronl Scotland to New York, June, 191J; returned same month. _ Zeppelin dirigible ZR-3 (later. Lo= \n"ele=): Sailed from Frederickshafen, Germanv. October 12, 1924; arrived at Lakehurst, N,J., October 15: time elap-ed SI hours 17 minutes. British biplane (Alcock-Brown): Took off at St. Johns, N.F., June 14, 1919; arrived Clifden, Ireland. June 15: time elapsed. 10 hours 12 minutes.