HISTORIC TRIP by The Queen Mary

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXVI, Issue 143, 2 June 1936, Page 7

HISTORIC TRIP by The Queen Mary

ATLANTIC CROSSING Liner’s Warm Welcome By American Crowds RECORD NOT BROKEN (British Official Wireless.) (Received 2, 11.30 a.ui.) RUGBY, June 1. The liner Queen Mary, which reached New York this morning, covered the distance of just under 3000 miles between Bishop’s Kock and Ambrose Light in 4 days 5 hours 48 minutes. The present record for the Atlantic crowing measured over this course was set up by the Normandie in May, 1935, and was 4 days 3 hours 24 minutes, east to west. On the voyage west to east the Norman, die’s record is 4 days 3 hours 5 minutes. The time which the Queen Mary lost) in the fog which she ran into on bate urday night, is officially computed at 10 hours. The official average speed for the entire voyage is given as 29.13 knots. The Normandie’s average speed on her maiden trip was 29.68 knots. The Normandie, which arrived at Le Havre shortly after midday from New: York, reached- 32 knots on the last lap of her voyage. This constitutes a new: record for the vessel, the previous fast, est speed of which was 31.53 knots. A New York message describes tho welcome which hundreds of thousands gave the new liner on arrivak Many thousands standing on tho roofs of motor-cars in the hills overlooking the entrance to the Narrows watched the last stage of the historic maiden trip. Aeroplanes hovered overhead, and crowds massed by Battery Point cheered lustily as the Queen Mary passed into the Hudson River for docking, her Fiftieth Street berth. Another New York message says that the Queen Mary passed Ambrose Light at 8.55 a.m., completing the voyage in 4 days 12 hours 20 minutes. Her crossing was 38 minutes slower than the Normandie’s.