Identifier: pilotlorefromsai00unit (find matches)
Title: Pilot lore; from sail to steam
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: United New York and New Jersey Sandy Hook Pilots Benevolent Associations National Service Bureau Allen, Edward L
Subjects: Shipping -- New York (State) New York Pilots and pilotage -- New York (State) New York New York (N.Y.) -- Harbor
Publisher: (New York)
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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t, was fitted with three-crank compound engines. Thus in the gradual development of this line may be traced theprogress of the shipping industry in general, and in the substitutionof new ships of superior types the advance of science in relation tothe steamship and marine steam engine may be closely followed.The same spirit of progress prevails in the company today. Thusall new steamers burn oil fuel, and big ones like the Aquitania,Berengaria and Mauretania originally built to burn coal, havebeen converted into oil burners. The companys first steel liner, the Servia, built in 1881, waspractically the pioneer of what may be called the Express Trans-atlantic Service, as owing to the immense space required for thepowerful machinery necessary for the high speed beginning to pre-vail, but little room was left for cargo. She was the first Cunarderto receive an electric installation. Her gross register was 7,392tons and with her speed of 16.7 knots she reduced the Atlantic pass- — 144 —
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THE CUNARD BUILDING25 Broadway, New York City £\ T7 XJ XJ MM 0* 0* -6- «- w ^ ^ v3> ^ ^& w age to 7 days 1 hour and 38 minutes. She was superbly fitted forthose days and provided accommodation for 4-80 cabin and 750third class passengers. In 1884 the Oregon, built for another Atlantic line, was pur-chased by the Cunard Company. She attained a speed of 18 knotsand was famed as the Greyhound of the Atlantic. This sensa-tional result led the directors of the company to order from thesame builders two new vessels of greater power and speed—theUmbria and Etruria. These two were, in their day, the fastestships afloat, attaining a speed of 20 knots. The Etruria heldthe Atlantic speed record for some time—accomplishing the west-tern passage in 5 days 20 hours and 55 minutes, and the easternpassage in 6 days 37 minutes. She was 500 feet long, with a grosstonnage of 8,110. The Campania and Lucania (1893) were also blue ribbonwinners. These beautiful ships were each 625 feet long, 6

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