MONOWAI’S FAST CROSSING
TASMAN SEA IN 66 HOURS.
JUST FAILED TO BREAK RECORD.
By Telegraph—Press Association. Wellington, March 6.
By a narrow margin the Union Company’s intercolonial steamer Monowai failed to break the Sydney-Wellington record on her last trip to Australia, which finished here yesterday. The Monowai completed the journey from wharf to wharf in 66 hours 43 minutes, and from the heads to heads in 66 "hours 3 minutes.
Her previous best time was established on March 6,1933, when she made the crossing from heads to heads in 66 hours 10 minutes. Her average speed on the whole of the present journey was 19 knots, the speed through Cook Strait being 19.8 knots. In her record trip her average speed was 19.5 knots.
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Taranaki Daily News, 7 March 1934, Page 7
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