LUSITANIA AFTER RECORD.; May Eclipse Mauretania's Figures for a Single Day's Run. ... The New York Times Archives. See the article in its original context from December 30, 1907, Page 4 Buy Reprints.

Between 1900 and 1914, over 13 million passengers sailed between New York City and Europe carried on ocean liners like Olympic, Lusitania, Mauretania, Aquitania, and Imperator. (Titanic, too, but ...

The Lusitania sailed regularly between Liverpool (above) and New York from 1907 to 1915 Some 1,200 people died when the ocean liner Lusitania was sunk by a German U-boat in World War One. A ...

THE Lusitania, from her maiden voyage to New York to her sinking by a German U-boat submarine eight years later, was Liverpool’s favourite liner among the many using the port.

RMS Mauretania made her maiden voyage the following year, setting off from Liverpool for New York on November 16, 1907. Weighing 31,938 tons, the ship had enough space for 563 1st class passengers ...

Speed was at the forefront of the design of RMS Lusitania. Its turbine engines were the largest ever built at that time, and provided the ship with a service speed of 25 knots (around 47km/h or ...

The Government loaned Cunard £2.6m for the new superliners, named Mauretania and Lusitania. ... 1907, sailing to New York in five days, 18 hours and 17 minutes. On November 30, ...

Lusitania and her sister-ship Mauretania were originally fitted with three-bladed propellers. In 1908 Mauretania had a new set of four-bladed propellers fitted, which immediately improved her speed.

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At 787ft (240m) and 31,550 tonnes, it was then the largest ship in the world. The Lusitania departed on its maiden voyage from Liverpool to New York on 7 September 1907, and, a month later, it ...