Identifier: everyboysbookofr00prot (find matches)
Title: Every boy's book of railways and steamships
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Protheroe, Ernest
Subjects: Railroads Steamboats
Publisher: London : Religious Tract Society
Contributing Library: Boston College Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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man Line snatched thehonours from its younger rivals by means of the City of Berlin, 5491 tons, which laid to itscredit an outward passage of 7 days 18 hours2 min. In later years this was the first vessel tobe lighted by electricity. Only a year later the White Star regainedthe lost laurels. The Britannic, 5004 tons, cutthe outward record several times until it stoodat 7 days 10 hours 53 min.; her sister vessel, the Germanic, in the same year reduced the home-ward passage to 7 days 15 hours 7 min., only forthe Britannic to outvie it by two hours anda half. Meanwhile the Gruion Line, founded in 1866,had been making frantic efforts to secure a shareof the trans-Atlantic honours without success.Eventually it was decided to construct theArizona, 5147 tons, and the vessel made itsmark on both passages; the outward voyage,7 days 10 hours 47 min., and the homeward,7 days 8 hours 11 min. In 1882 the Alaskamade an onslaught upon the outward passage andcut the record down a further 6 hours; the
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BLUE RIBBON OF THE ATLANTIC 229 homeward passage she achieved in 6 days 22 hours,the first vessel to cross the Atlantic Ocean within aweek. It was to the Arizona or the Alaskathat the title ocean greyhound was first ex-pressly applied. These last-named notable performances werewiped out in 1884. The National Lines America in June made the eastward passagein 6 days 14 hours 8 min. A couple of monthslater the Oregon steamed into fame on bothtrips, making the passage from Queenstown toNew York in 6 days 9 hours 42 min., and thereturn voyage in 6 days 11 hours 9 min. Thisvessel had been built for the Guion Line, but theCunard Company had purchased her before sheobtained her double first. With the reduction of the Atlantic passage tosix and a half days, it appeared that the shipbuilderwas assuredly approaching finality in the matter ofspeed. Possibly the Cunard Line viewed thepossession of the championship as savouring some-what of chance, in that the Oregon wasconstructed to the orders of

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