THE NEW CUNARDERS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 21, 4 June 1908, Page 6

THE NEW CUNARDERS.

MA URETANIA'S LATEST. . BY TELEGRAPH—PItF.BS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGSV Ltindon,'June 2. Tho Cunard liner Mauretania, using only three screws, completed tho long course from New York in 4 days, 20 hours; ,15-, minutes. Tho Mauretania has now satisfied the Government conditions., '-v..' RIVALRY 6F THE ATLANTIC. The Lusitania and. tho Mauretania jaro-,each' fitted with four sets of engines driving, four propellers (also two' to go astern, with), and these onginos are turbines, developing' 63,(W0 h.p. The fact that they have not'i hitherto oqualled the conditions of the subventions is attributed to the fact that new vessels :tio • not do their best in earlier voyages, especially in tho case of theoretic steamers, whoso-'jivcqhani-cal and constructional peculiarities areinof understood and appreciated all- at onee.V_The "Daily Telegraph,"-which points out.thaf&iha subvention can be, either wholly or ' partly earned, recently pointed out that conditions during tho Atlantic sumnicr:«hoaW provide better results. Both' vessels hadrbew dry-docked at Liverpool for alterations; aimed, not only at. a reduction of vibration, but at such readjustments of the propellers in relation to tho turbines as experience.Bocmed to dicato. Tho "Telegraph" adds:— "In the .meantime, they have certainly,,boon doing little to boast about. The German/liners have beaten them timo and again. Levying Liverpool oh January 25 for New York,-v the Lusitania's average speed from Dannt's Rock to Sandy Hook lightship was 20.93 knots. ; v -,On her return voyage tho averago speed between the same points was 2.108, or an average",on t tho outward and homeward runs of '22 knots; The newest of the Norddeulscher-Lloyd express boats, the Kronprinsessin Ceoilie, beran a voyage from Cherbourg on Fobnmry 5, «I«von days Inter, and her average speed to Sandy Hcok lightship was'2.l knots, while on the return, trip it v.-as 23.35 knqts. This gives an average foi tho whole voyage of 2,1.17, as compared with the Cunarder's 22. In comparisons of, this kind it has always to be remembered that identical woather conditions are problematical."