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Message: [QUOTE="Mark Baber, post: 46831, member: 79063"] MAB Note: With Lusitania's maiden voyage at an end, so is this series of articles. [i]The New York Times, 28 September 1907[/i] [b]LUSITANIA GOES AT 25-KNOT SPEED[/b] --- Does 228 Knots from Queenstown to Liverpool in a Little Over Nine Hours --- STOKERS DELAYED VOYAGE --- They Were Refractory and Inefficient---Fog and Heavy Sea Further Held Big Boat Back --- Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- LONDON, Sept. 27---Evidence as to what the Lusitania can do, writes THE NEW YORK TIMES's correspondent, who was a passenger aboard the Cunarder which reached Liverpool at 4 this afternoon, was reserved until the very end of the voyage. From Queenstown to Liverpool, a distance of 228 knots, she traveled at a speed of 25 knots, covering the distance in a little over nine hours. The new record which she established between Sandy Hook and Daunt's Lightship of 5 days 4 hours and 19 minutes she made despite sixteen hours of fog, two days of very heavy sea, and a refractory crew of stokers. The Lusitania underwent a baptism of rough sea in the mid-Atlantic from Tuesday night to Thursday afternoon and weathered it magnificently. She careened gently to an observed maximum angle of 20 degrees, but went forward with the rhythmic ease of a cruising yacht. Throughout the trip the work of the stokers continued to be loose, half-hearted, and at times approaching absolute inefficiency. It was impossible to get more than 150 to 160 revolutions out of the turbines, which were built to do 180 to 200. The Lusitania's passengers arrived at London shortly after 9 to-night, but there was no distribution of her mails to-night. ----- QUEENSTOWN, Sept. 27---Sandy Hook Lightship was passed by the Lusitania at 6:37 P. M. Saturday, Sept. 21, and the ship had covered 369 miles up to noon Sunday, Sept. 22. On Monday at noon the steamer had added 524 miles. At noon Tuesday she had covered 525 miles more; at noon Wednesday she had made an additional 530 miles; at noon Thursday she had 523 miles more to her credit, and at 3:56 A. M. to-day she had run 336 miles from noon yesterday to Daunt's Rock, making the total distance 2,807 nautical miles, at an average speed of 22.58 knots per hour. The American coal was said by the engineers not to have been so satisfactory as the coal used during the westward trip. The confidence of the engineers in the Lusitania's ability to beat all competitors when things are running more smoothly is not diminished. -30- [/QUOTE]

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