Every boy's book of railways and steamships (1911)
Protheroe, Ernest · London : Religious Tract Society · leaf 305
man Line snatched thehonours from its younger rivals by means of the City of Berlin, 5491 tons, which laid to itscredit an outward passage of 7 days 18 hours2 min. In later years this was the first vessel tobe lighted by electricity. Only a year later the White Star regainedthe lost laurels. The… … BLUE RIBBON OF THE ATLANTIC 229 homeward passage she achieved in 6 days 22 hours,the first vessel to cross the Atlantic Ocean within aweek. It was to the Arizona or the Alaskathat the title ocean greyhound was first ex-pressly applied. These last-named notable performances werewiped out in 1884.…
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