The History of North Atlantic steam navigation with some account of early ships and shipowners (1896)
Fry, Henry · New York : C. Scribner's sons · leaf 120
5 days 17 hours and 21 minutes, her best days work being 514knots. In October, on her second trip west, she made the run in5 days 13 hours and 45 minutes, beating the best run ever madepreviously (by the City of Paris—5 days 14 hours 24 minutes).On this passage the Lucatiia made the phenomenal run… … H 2 THE CUNARD LINE AND ITS COMPETITORS. lOI 5 days 12 hours 47 minutes—distance, 2780 knots; speed 2093.In May, 1894, she made the western passage in 5 days 12 hoursand 57 minutes by the southern or longer route, the distance being2873 knots, and the average speed 2i9o ; and though her returntrip…
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