Word: mauretania
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Last week the New Yorker, Manhattan weekly smartchart, told how a gentleman aboard the Mauretania en route for Manhattan last June, spent the better part of four afternoons on a sequestered deck-bench reading Authoress Delmar's Loose Ladies. The reader was John Pierpont Morgan...
...without soundest reasons did he scrap the world's longest ocean liner keel. When the Oceanic was laid down, super-size rather than superspeed was the boast of luxury ships. For 22 years the trans-Atlantic speed record had been held unmolested by Cunard's gallant Mauretania while ship after ship surpassed her in size. Last month, however, Germany's new Bremen beat the old Mauretania (TIME, July 29), set a new trans-Atlantic liner record, suddenly made speed once more the public's test in judging a liner's smartness, her éclat...
Scotch Andrew Cockburn, chief engineer of the Mauretania that held the Atlantirecord for 22 years had one consolation...
...fastest: Bremen (28 knots), Mauretania (25% knots), Majestic (25 knots), Leviathan (24 knots...
Seven hundred sea miles in 24 hours-for 22 years the Mauretania has been shooting at that goal. Her best shot was a 676, made in 1911 on a record crossing from Cherbourg to Manhattan. Last week the Bremen, on her first day out from Cherbourg sped 687 miles for a new world's one-day record. As she nosed into Manhattan plump Captain Leopold Ziegen-bein snapped his stopwatch and beamingly announced that the Bremen's time from Cherbourg to Ambrose Light had been 4 days, 17 hours, 42 minutes. The Maure-tania's best record...