AN OCEAN GREYHOUND.
MAURETANIA'S VOYAGES.
SUCCESS OF OIL FUEL.
A NOTABLE RECORD. The announcement that the Mauretania, that veteran of the trans-Atlantic service, had broken her own long-standing record for the eastward passage, says an English paper, must have brought a thrill of pleasure to many a traveller across the western ocean. Fourteen years ago, this same ship, then a coal burner, made the run over the old and shorter route, New York to Queenstown, in 4 days 10 hours and 41 minutes at an average speed of knots. With her ill-fated sister, the Lusitania, the Mauretania had the distinction of being the first high-speed liner to be driven by the then comparatively new steam turbine, and it was the sensational speed and reliable running of these two Cunarders that brought abo Jt the universal adoption of the turbine in high-speed liners. Sixteen rears of continuous service had played havoc with the blading of the Mauretania's turbines, and before she went
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18897, 20 December 1924, Page 22 (Supplement)
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161AN OCEAN GREYHOUND. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18897, 20 December 1924, Page 22 (Supplement)
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