THE QUEEN MARY

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18597, 7 January 1935, Page 5

THE QUEEN MARY

TO BREAK ALL RECORDS

FASTER THAN ANY SHIP AFLOAT LONDON, Nov. 19. Lunch in Cherbourg on Saturday; tea ill Now York on Wednesday atteriiooii —3IOO miles in 96 hours. That, is the schedule which the Canard White Star Line are working out for the now liner Queen Maiv, t i months in advance of her maiden voyage.

This is several hours taster than that of any liner now afloat.- Jo maintain this time-table, the Queen Mary will steam at, ail average ot knots—lour miles an hour faster than the average for the fastest Atlantic crossing ever made.

The record for the Atlantic crossing is held by the Italian liner Hex.

To make up for delay due to fog or bad weather, the Queen Alary will sometimes have to travel at a considerably higher speed than knots. Actually the reserve of power in the propelling machinery is great enough to drive the ship at Z 4 to 35 knots. Inunks to her enormous size and the peculiar lines of her hull, she should he able to carry on at very great speed in weather that would slow down a smaller and less powerful ship.

12 HOURS’ “TURN-ROUND

An elaborate timetable of the ship’s movements is already being worked out. It is based on a “turn-round” of only 12 hours —that is to say, she will arrive in port, disembark passengers, re-store, re-fuel, embark passengers, and sail again, all within 12 hours. Her luel-oil equipment is such that the multiple tanks, containing in all 6300 tons, can be refilled in eight hours. Arrival and departure at Southampton,' Cherbourg and New York will be so arranged as to leave only a margin of minutes for unforeseen delay.

For tho first, time in the history of North Atlantic trallic tile exact hour of the vessel’s arrival will bn announced at New York before she lias left Cherbourg. Nothing short of prolonged fog or mountainous seas will lie. allowed to interfere with the schedule.