Every boy's book of railways and steamships (1911)
Protheroe, Ernest · London : Religious Tract Society · leaf 320
ed of 27J knots or3If land miles an hour. By the time the Lusitania and Mauretania were two years old, their earlier successes hadbecome comparatively ancient history, for withever-increasing speed both had swept the recordsof their youth remorselessly aside. Let their bestperformances speak for… … BLUE RIBBON OF THE ATLANTIC 241 day, and the Liisitania s best days steamingstands at 666 miles; the Mauretanias bestaverage speed is 26*06 knots (September, 1909),and the Lusitanias 25-88 knots (March, 1910).Ocean records, however, are notoriously short-lived,and it is more than likely that before…
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