ATLANTIC RECORDS

Evening Star, Issue 18048, 16 August 1922, Page 4

ATLANTIC RECORDS

NEW POSSIBILITIES. 1 [From Our London Correspondent.) * July 5. Experts seem to be tolerably confident that a new Atlantic record for steam vessels will shortly bo established. All manner of people who are interested in gea-going events, as well as a, considerable proportion of the sporting public, who rejoice in records of all sorts, are closely following the Gunarder Mauretania’s performances, This vessel, the Tyne-built sister ship to the ill-fated Clyde-built Lusitania, is at present the fastest ocean greyhound afloat. She has recently made a post-war Atlantic record, considerably behind her pre-war worlds record passage, and now has got within four knots of her pre-war record day’s steaming. As .all Atlantic travellers know, the day’s ran, reckoning from noon to noon, is always posted up in? the main saloon before lunch time, and is the exciting subject of a daily sweepstake among the passengers. The Mauretania’s post-war day’s record is 610 knots, at an average, of 26.29 knots an hour. Marine engineers expect the .Gunarder to create a new Atlantic record, in spite of her age, because she is now fitted with oil-buftiing engines which have not yet had time to settle down to their best running, Once they arc at their best we shall hear of a now Atlantic record, which will possibly cut some hours off the pre-war one. All this, of course, applies to merchant vessels. The fastest Atlantic trip was made during the war by a British battle cruiser.