SUCCESS OF THE TURBINE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 12759, 9 January 1905, Page 3

SUCCESS OF THE TURBINE.

TUP UNION COMPANY'S XISTEAMER. ALL RECORDS DOWERED. With the advent of the turbine in Australasian waters existing records for fast steaming are doomed. All previous records between Port Phillip Heads and the entrance to the 'Pamar River, Launeeston, were easily eclipsed recently by the Union Company's new turbine steamer Loongana. The distance from heads to heads is 196 miles, and, allowing for the loss of a quarter of an hour during a dense fog, tins Ixiongana accomplished the run across iu nine hours and 28 minutes, representing an average hourly speed of a-little over 20 knots. 'I'll. l ' vessel thus improved on her host, previous effort by 32 minutes. Previously the Rotomahnou and the Coogeo held about equal steaming records of 12i hours approximately, but on her first, (rip last October the Loongana reduced this by two hours and a-lialf, completing the passage from heads to heads in exactly 10 hours. hough on several subsequent occasions she has succeeded in making tho run in from IG.' hours to 11 hours, her initial effort was not even equalled i'!'til last week. The weather was fine, nut the sea smooth. Over 300 passengers were on hoard, and tool: much interest in the trip, it, being known to the most of them that- the Loongana would attempt to break her own record.