TO CHALLENGE THE ATLANTIC RECORD.

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 1, 1 July 1922, Page 12

TO CHALLENGE THE ATLANTIC RECORD.

Reports received concerning the world's largest ship, the Majestic,, confirm'cable, statements that the ship is much- faster, than had been assumed, and that .in building her, as the Bismarck,, the Germans aimed at the speed laurels of the Atlantic. When the Majestic was'_ turned over,to the Reparations ' Commission '■; in accordance with the Peace Treaty; and' -when pur-' chased for the White Star Line, she was rated as capable o£ 23 knots an hour, with her quadruple turbine, engines developing- 61,000 shaft horse-power at 180 revolutions a minute. It now transpires that at the ship's trials, and on her way t(> Southampton after the delivery, the Whito Star Line engineers found that her engines developed nearly 80,000 horsfipower at. 180 revolutions, and that although she was not pushed for speed, she made nearer 25 than 23 knots. Thife led to an immediate l'evision of the.estimates as to what the ship could do when engaged in tho Atlantic service, and to an official statement from President P. A. S. Franklin, of tho International Mercantile Marino Company, that she " would ''comfortably exceed" 25 knots service speed under ordinary conditions. Engineers familiar with the big ocean liners predict that the big boat when driven to develop a maximum, of 100,000 horse-pow-er, of which she ,is now b'eljeved to be capable, may becomo a formidable candidato for the' Atlantic record. That recor-1 is vow 13 years old, the time being 4 days 10 hours 41 minutes, Qiteenstown to Neiv York. The record for the fastest single day's run is 676 knots, or an average of 27.04 knots an hour. ■