WORLD'S FASTEST LINER.

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 36, 11 August 1923, Page 14

WORLD'S FASTEST LINER.

The American flax was recently car-, ried through the water* of the.Atlantic aboard the reconditioned Leviathan today faster than any merchant steamship flag ever travelled before. The record, of the British speed liner - Mauretania was broken when the New American passenger ship reached a.. inaSimum of 28.04 knotß. The ship .average of . twelve houra was 27.94 knote. ijlated AmencaD. shipbuilding experts went without sleep to watcii'-the battle against other records previously held by German and British vessels./- "For fifteen years we have waited to: beat the *r *F a? V^llll3ll^ on the seas," said Mr. >\. t. Gibbs, eupervismg architect in the reconditioning work. "Sow- \i'e are reaping the fruits of our labours." ChdirR»n^V» ' HS^ of tlie Shipping Board, revealed in a speech tb tlie .passengers that the reeouditiomng for speed had We been planned and 'kept; secret. Weekirajro it Was known the shop would ttar d&wn the previbua reCbrdsi he soM. Groups of passengurs thronged about the bulletin board for the AnnouncemenS of developments every two hours. The sweltermji heat w as forgotten y the race went on, Mr. Gibbs u,,d C-a^tain Herbert Hartley aid not sleep for forty-six hours, so that they, hiijiht dfeVota. their continuous attention to the ia-ie ' Members of the Shipping Board believe may be prevailed upon to appropriate funds for building Wo more giant liners like the Leviathan.' to make America toremost in speed travel on the ocean. ■ ■ <

The Leviathan arrived at 'New York many hours, before her echeduled time.