Note 7 — Chapter XVI · THE MODERN MERCHANT SHIP

The speeds given for Mauretania, Majestic, Berengaria, Aquitania, Olympic and Homeric are from New York to Cherbourg Breakwater or to the Eddystone Light. The passages quoted are really not faster than what was previously accomplished on the Liverpool to New York route before these big liners were transferred to the Southampton to New York route. Thus the fastest Atlantic voyage ever made was by Mauretania when she steamed from Queenstown to New York in four days, ten hours, forty-one minutes. Lusitania accomplished this in only sixty-one minutes longer. The best average speed ever made by a liner for one day was 27·10 knots by Lusitania, eastward-bound; but the best average speed for a whole voyage was made by Mauretania, before being converted to oil. She kept up 26·06 knots.