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Cunard Liner Mauretania leaving the Tyne after lauch


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This fantastic Cunard liner was built to regain the blue ribbon from the German liners. She was equipped with 4 direct-action Parson steam turbines; two high pressure and two low pressure, producing 70,000 HP. Quadruple propellers of improved design gave her a service speed of 25 knots. On her trials she attained a speed of 27.04 knots. Assuming that she could maintain her best record speed of 27.04 knots, along the line of the equator, she would encircle the globe in 38 days, 12 hours, 33 minutes and 22 seconds. To increase the speed with 1.5 knots they had to go from 40,000 HP. to 70,000 HP. This fantastic steamship conveyed thousands of emigrants to their new homeland in her almost 30 years of service. - Read more about the S/S Maureatina
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