Labels:bulletin board | earth | hakham | reckoner | sky OCR: 0ver3000 milesofocean. evena tew minute make erence The Blue Riband was an unofficialspeed award acknowledgedby the transatla antic shipping community of Europe and North. America. T+ was a powerfulincentive Sugrnp am era w.hen every shipbuilder was eager to launch afaster liner than its ompetitors. Besidesthe Lusitania, w.hich lset the speed record in 4061 at 23.1knots, and the M auretania, w.hich surpasse the record thatsame year knots, below are some ofthe more significant speed records (Since ithestartingand lendingpoints were hot ithesame. the key factorwas taveragespeed.) DATE SHOP LINE ROUE ITIME LAVG. SPEED July 840 Briannia Lverpool T2 OTsXBP hrs 8 knots unard Walif Mayr877 Adrintic Queenstown day23 min r4.41knots @White Sta Feb. 1876 Germanic New York- 7 days I5 ZISIH min 15.81kn ...
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