Aircraft-carrier Sets New Atlantic Record
QUEEN MARY’S AVERAGE SPEED BEATEN Received Wednesday 12.15 a.m. NEW YORK, Nov. 27. The aircraft-carrier Lake Champlain, bringing back 5000 troops, established an Atlantic average speed record by steaming 3360 nautical miles from Cape Spartel, near Gibraltar, to Chesapeake Bay in 4 days 8 hours 51 minutes, averaging 32 knots. The Queen Mary set the previous crossing record by steaming from New York to the English Channel in 3 days 20 hours 42 minutes at an average speed of 31.69 knots.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 70, Issue 281, 28 November 1945, Page 7
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