SOME AUCKLAND PASSENGERS.
APCKLANI), .May S. Mr J. C. Mac:ky. of .the firm of Macky, Logan, C.P.dveil and Company, with his wife r.'i'i ram He. had booked passages by the Lusiisiniafor the present trip.
The Lusitania was one of those magnificent Heating palaces owned by the Cunard Co.. Ltd., and employed upon the Liverpool-New York service. Pictures of the interior of the vessei show that she was. fttte'. with every comfort and luxury v.'hi.h wealthy passengers could desire, while the furnishing a'iu decorations were wonders of modern an. The gross tonnage of tho vercc: was r;0,390 tons and her four elcr.ni rurb'no 'ongines aggregating 7t>,(.>!.:•.) h.p. sent her on her journey across the Atlantic: at a speed of •more than 25 knots per hour. Her length was 702 feet, breadth S7 feet. depth 50 i'eet. IL-r pore of register was Liverpool and rhe Hew the British Hag. .'.iessis J. Brown and Co., Glasgow, were the builders. She was launched on June 7, ISOS,-and on her maiden voyage to Now York iv September, 1907, she broke all previous records.
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Northern Advocate, 8 May 1915, Page 5
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178SOME AUCKLAND PASSENGERS. Northern Advocate, 8 May 1915, Page 5
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