placement, left the Barbados, West Indies, on -June 27. British hospital ship, Llandovery -July 12. Japanese battleship Kawachi blown up -July 14. French troop ship Djamnah sunk by torpedo in Mediterranean; 442. -July 19. U. S. Cruiser, San Diego, sunk by mine, off Fire Island, N. Y.; 50. -Aug. 3. British hospital ship, Warilda, torpedoed off England; 123. -Sept. 12. British transport, Galway Castle, torpedoed in Atlantic; 189. town, Mass., in collision with Coast Guard destroyer Paulding; 40. 1928-July 7. Chilean transport, Angames, wrecked -Aug. 6. Italian submarine F14 sunk in Adriatic 1929-Jan. 2. Steamship Malakoff (formerly the -April 22. Japanese steamer, Toyo Kuni Maru, crashed on Rocky Cape Erino; 103. -Sept. 26. U. S. ship Tampa, torpedoed off Eng-July 9. British submarine, H-47, in collision land; 118. -Sept. 30. U. S. ship, Ticonderoga, torpedoed in with sister submarine L-12; 21. -Aug. 30. Coasting steamer, San Juan, sunk in collision with tanker, off Santa Cruz, Calif.; 70. -Oct. 6. Otranto, British ship with U. S. troops,-Oct. 7. Norwegian steamer, Haakon VII, hit rock sunk in collison off Scotland; 431. in storm and sank near Floroe: 44. -Oct. 10. Irish mail steamer, Leinster, torpedoed-Dec. 21. Chinese steamer, Lee Cheong, sank on in St. George's Channel; 480. -Oct. 25. Canadian steamship Princess Sophia 1919-Jan. 1. British steam yacht Iolaire (Eagle), way from Swabue for Hong Kong; 300. 1930-April 2. Ferry-boat capsized near Tobata; 110. -June 10. Oil tanker Pinthis sunk in Massachusetts Bay in collision with coast steamer, Fairfax; 50. 1931-Jan. 20. Russian steamer, Javaria, sunk in storm in Black Sea; 50. -Jan. 17. French steamer Chaouia lost in Straits-Feb. 9. French steamer, Porthos, sunk in snow of Messina; 460. -Sept. 9-10. Spanish steamer, Valbanera, lost between Havana, Cuba, and Key West, Fla.: 500. -Nov. 9. American steamship Polar Land vanished off Nova Scotia; 51. 1920-Jan. 12. French steamship sunk in Bay of Biscay; 500. 1921-Spanish steamer Santa Isabel storm-wrecked near Villagarcia; 214. -Jan. 20. British submarine K5 failed to return --March 18. Steamer Hongkong hit rock near 1922-Jan. 4. Greek torpedo boat blew up at -May 20. British steamer Egypt, in collision off -Aug. 26. French battleship France, 23,000 tons, -Aug. 26. Japanese cruiser Niitaka sank in storm off Kamchatka; 300. -Aug. 29. Chilian steamer Itata sank in storm off Coquimbo; 301. storm off Kobe, Japan; 50. March 11, Chinese steamer exploded in Yangtse -April 1. Collision of French immigrant steamer, -June 9. British submarine, Poseidon, sunk in -Oct. 24. Russian submarine sunk in Gulf of 1932-Jan. 26. British submarine, M-2, sunk off Gibraltar; 26. H42 sunk off -May 16. French passenger motorship. Georges -Sept. 9. Steamboat Observation, carrying work- 1923-March 10 Greek transport Alexander sank-Dec. 5. Japanese destroyer, Sawarabi, turned upoff Piraeus; 150. -April 23. Portuguese mail steamer Mossamedes side down by gale off Formosa; 105." 1933-Jan. 4. New 41,000-ton French steamer, L'Atlantique, burned in English Channel; 17. Gulf-April 4, U. S. Navy dirigible balloon, Akron, crashed on the Atlantic in a thunder storm, 20 miles southeast of Barnegat Inlet Light, N. J.; 73. There were but 3 survivors. 1934-Jan. 21. Chinese steamer, Weitung, on Yangtse River, burned and sank; 216. -Mch. 12. Japanese torpedo, boat Tomozuru upset west of Nagasaki; 103. 1924-Jan. 10. British submarine L-24 sunk off -March 11. Ward Line steamship Santiago -Sept. 8. American steamship Morro Castle, Ha- -July 3. Japanese cruise steamer, Midori Maru, 1925-March 12. Japanese steamer Uwajima Maru-July 25. Russian submarine, B-3, sunk in Baltic lost in gale off Takashima; 103. Sea, in collision with another warship; 55. 1936-Jan. 12. Freight steamer Iowa sunk in gale at mouth of Columbia River, Oreg.; 34. -Nov. 8. German motorship, Isis, sunk in storm off Land's End, England; 39. -Aug. 18. Excursion steamboat Mackinac, on Narragansett Bay, boiler explosion; 47. -Sept. 25. U. S. submarine S-51 sunk in collision with City of Rome, off Block Isl., R. I.; 37. -Nov. 11. British submarine, M-1, sunk in col--Dec. 12. Spanish submarine sunk off Malaga lision in English Channel; 69. 1926-April 27. Passenger steamer Chichibu grounded in storm off Horomushiro, Japan; 230. -Aug. 28. Passenger steamboat Buryvestnik smashed into a river pier near Cronstadt, Russia, and sank; 300. -Oct. 16. Troopship blown up in Yangtse River, at Klukiang, China; 1,200. -Oct. 20. British navy sloop, Valerian, sunk in -Dec. 20. Oil tug. Linseed King, overturned in by a torpedo; 47. -Dec. 26. Italian steamship, Cesare Battiste, blew -May 23, U. S. submarine Squalus, sunk in prac- -June 1, British submarine Thetis sunk in test dive in Irish sea off Great Ormes Head, Wales; 99, 4 rescued. -June 15, French submarine, Phenix, sunk in practice dive. Carn-Ranh Bay, off Indo-China; 63. -Sept. 3. British merchant ship, Athenia, sunk in the Atlantic, on the way to Montreal, 200 miles west of the Hebrides; 93 of the 1,104 passengers lost. Visibility at Sea Source: United States Coast Guard The table following gives the approximate geographic range of visibility for an object which may be seen by an observer whose eye is at sea level; in practice, therefore, it is necessary to add to these a distance of visibility corresponding to the height of the observer's eye above sea level. DISTANCES OF VISIBILITY FOR OBJECTS OF VARIOUS ELEVATIONS ABOVE SEA LEVEL The table following gives the approximate geographic range of visibility for an object which may be seen by an observer whose eye is at lake level; in practice, therefore, it is necessary to add to these a distance of visibility corresponding to the height of the observer's eye above lake level. DISTANCES OF VISIBILITY FOR OBJECTS OF VARIOUS ELEVATIONS ABOVE LAKE LEVEL Height, in Statute Height, in Statute feet Miles feet Miles Height, in Statute Height, in Statute Miles feet Miles Boston light, 100,000. The Fire Island, N. Y., Light is 167 ft. high; visible 19 nautical miles. The Shinnecock light has 140,000 candlepower; Electricity is the illuminant now used in most of the larger lighthouses, electric incandescent lamps placed inside the larger sizes of lenses producing beams of as much as 9,000,000 candlepower where such brilliance is required. The flashing characteristics which distinguish many of the lighthouses are produced by revolving the entire lens by electric motors. Lenses which are aggregates of highly polished glass prisms are assembled in a variety of types to produce whatever characteristic will best differentiate a particular light from its neighbors. The larger light stations are also fitted with fog signals, various types of sounding devices such as diaphones, trumpets, oscillators, sirens, and horns. A typical fog-signal installation consists of gaso- houses and all United States lightships are fitted Fast Ocean Passages by Ships BY SAILING VESSELS Columbus, in 1492, sailed from Spain (Palos) | 25 minutes. to the Gulf of Mexico in 70 days, Aug. 3 to Oct. 12. The best day's run was 200 miles. His flagship was the Santa Maria. The other vessels were the Pinta and the Nina. From Palos they Went to the Canary Islands, and it was not until Sept. 6 that they left the Island of Gomera. They were not out into the open sea until Sept. 9. His second voyage, in 1493, from Cadiz, Spain, to Dominica, in the West Indies (Sept. 25-Nov. 3) was made in 40 days, but the land-to-land passage was only 21 days; his third, to Trinidad (May 30July 31) in 1497, in 62 days; his fourth and last, to Honduras, in 1502 (May-July) in about 62 days, but the land-to-land time (May 26-June 15) was but 20 days. The American-built, British-owned ship, James Baines, sailed 21 nautical miles (knots) an hour, for several hours-a record. She sailed from Boston Light to Rock Light, Liverpool, in 12 days, 6 hours. The Flying Cloud twice made the voyage from in The British tea-clipper, Thermopylae, sailed in 1854 from Liverpool, England, to Melbourne. Australia, in 63 days, 18 hours, 15 minutes. The Northern Light, "medium" clipper, sailed from San Francisco to Boston in 76 days, 6 hours. was made in The run north from Cape Horn 38 days. The clipper Red Jacket, built at Rockland, Me.. sailed from N. Y. to Liverpool in 13 days, 1 hour, The packet ship, Yorkshire, in Nov.. 1846, sailed from Liverpool to New York in 16 days. The Surprise was one of the first clippers built outside New York. She was designed by Samuel Pook, then only 23, and built at East Boston by Samuel Hall. She was only 1,006 tons register. but solidly built and fairly sharp in the bows. Her bowsprit was 30 inches diameter and extended 35 feet from the stem, nearly a fifth of her own length. Beneath that bowsprit was a gilded eagle. She carried about 1,800 tons of cargo, and her complement at first consisted of four mates. two boatswains, carpenter, sailmaker, steward. two cooks, thirty able bodied seamen, six ordinary seamen, and four boys. In one round voyage, from New York to San Francisco and from Hong Kong to London with tea, the Surprise earned a net profit of $50,000 over and above her expenses and her own cost to build! The ship Starr King once sailed from 50 degrees south to the Golden Gate in 36 days, a record. She was 8 days more getting into San Francisco, owing to fog. The Golden Fleece took only 122 days from the Equator to within 200 miles of San Francisco. Those 200 miles took her another week. The Atlantic, in the race for the German Emperor's Cup, in 1905, sailed from Sandy Hook to the Lizard, England, in 12 days, 4 hours, 1 minute and 19 seconds; 3,013 nautical miles, average speed 10.31 knots. The best day's run was 341 nautical miles. In 1928 she crossed from England in 23 days. The Yankee came from Bishop Rock to Boston Light in 1936, in 22 days, 6 hours, 7 minutes. BY STEAMSHIPS AND OTHER POWER VESSELS The first steamship to cross the Atlantic was the Rising Sun, in 1818; built in Britain by Lord Cochrane. She voyaged to South America. The first American ship to use steam in crossing an ocean was the Savannah, 350 tons, built at New York City, which left Savannah, Ga., on May 24, 1819, and reached Liverpool in 26 days, during 18 of which she used her side-paddles. She was a sailing vessel with steam auxiliary. The Great Western, on her maiden voyage from Bristol, England, to New York, covered the distance in April, 1838, in 15 days. Her best record was 10 days. 10 hours, 15 minutes. The Britannia, first Cunard liner, in July, 1840, came from Liverpool to New York in 14 days, 8 hours. In May, 1851, the Pacific reduced the Atlantic record to 9 days, 19 hours, 25 minutes. The Persia, in 1856, did it in 9 days, 1 hour. 45 minutes; the Scotia, in 1866, in 8 days, 2 hours, 48 minutes; the City of Brussels, in 1869. in 7 days, 22 hours, 3 minutes; the Baltic, in 1873, in 7 days, 20 hours, 9 minutes; the City of Berlin, in 1875, in 7 days, 15 hours, 8 minutes; the Arizona, in 1880, in 7 days, 7 hours, 23 minutes; the Alaska, in 1882, in 6 days, 18 hours, 37 minutes; the Etruria, in 1888, in 6 days, 1 hour, 55 minutes; the Majestic, in 1891, in 5 days, 18 hours, 8 minutes; the Lucania, in 1894, in 5 days, 7 hours, 23 minutes; the Lusitania, in 1908, in 4 days 15 hours; the Lusitania, in 1909, in 4 days 11 hours 42 minutes; the Mauretania, in 1910, in 4 days, 10 hours, 41 minutes, at the rate of 26.06 knots an hour. and including The foregoing records, since 1856, are between New York and Queenstown, averaging 2,780 nautical miles. The Deutschland, in Sept., 1900, went from Sandy Hook. New York, to Plymouth, England, in 5 days, 7 hours, 38 minutes. The Leviathan, Oct. 4-10, went from New York to Cherbourg in 5 days, 6 hours, 21 minutes, at an average speed of 24.67 knots. In Aug., 1933, the Italian Steamship, Rex, crossed the Atlantic, from Gibraltar to Ambrose Light, New York Harbor, 3,181 miles, in 4 days. 13 hours, 58 minutes. to The Europa of the North German Lloyd Line, on her maiden voyage, went, in 1930 (Mch. 2025), from Cherbourg Breakwater, France. Ambrose Channel Lightship, New York Harbor (3.157 nautical miles), in 4 days, 17 hours, 6 minutes. In July, 1933, she covered that route (3.149 miles) in 4 days, 16 hours, 48 minutes (average 27.92). In June, 1933, Ambrose to Cherbourg, 3,196 miles, in 4 days, 19 hours, 57 minutes (average 27.56). The Bremen, of the North German Lloyd Line, on her maiden voyage, went in 1929 (July 18-22) from the Breakwater at Cherbourg to the Ambrose Channel Lightship, (approximately 3,164 nautical miles) in 4 days, 17 hours, 42 minutes, at an average speed of 27.83 knots, or nautical miles, an hour. She returned to Plymouth, 3,082 miles, in 4 days, 14 hours, 30 minutes (average 27.91). In July, 1933, Ambrose to Cherbourg, 3,199 miles, in 4 days, 16 hours, 15 minutes (average 28.51). In Nov., 1934. Cherbourg to Ambrose, 3,092 miles, in 4 days, 14 hours, 27 minutes (average 28.00). The Queen Mary, Cunard White Star liner on her maiden voyage. May-June, 1936, went from Cherbourg to Ambrose, 3,158 miles, in 4 days, 12 hours, 24 minutes (average 29.13). She returned, Ambrose to Cherbourg, 3,198 miles, in 4 days, 15 hours, 15 minutes (average 28.74). On Aug. 8, 1938, the Queen Mary arrived in New York port, having come from Bishop's Rock, off Southampton, to Ambrose, 2,907 miles in 3 days. 21 hours, 48 minutes (average 30.99). Bishop's Rock is 126 miles nearer to Ambrose than is Cherbourg. On the return trip, the Queen Mary traveled from Ambrose to Bishop Rock, 2,938 miles, in 3 days, 20 hours, 42 minutes (average 31.69). The French liner, Normandie, on her maiden trip to New York, May 29-June 3, 1935, went the 2.971 miles in 4 days, 3 hours, 13 minutes, 38 seconds (average 29.94). Returning to Europe she covered the 3,015 miles in 4 days, 3 hours, 25 minutes (average 30.31). In July-Aug. 1937 the Normandie went 2,906 miles, westbound, Bishop's Rock to Ambrose, in 3 days, 23 hours, 2 minutes (average 30.58). In Aug., 1937 the Normandie covered the east bound course, 2,936 miles, in 3 days, 22 hours, 7 minutes (average 31.20). The light cruiser Omaha, of the U. S. Navy, in 1923 (May 8-11), steamed from Diamond Head. Oahu, Hawaii, to the San Francisco Light Vessel, a distance of 2,091 miles, in 3 days 3 hours 40 minutes 40 seconds. The average speed was 27.76 miles an hour. The U. S. S. Memphis, which brought Capt. (now Col) Charles A. Lindbergh back to the United States after his airplane flight from New York (Mineola) to Paris (Le Bourget), left Cherbourg, France, at 4:35 p.m. (Zone-1) June 4, 1927. and arrived abeam of Cape Henry Light (Delaware Capes) at 4:00 p.m. (Zone plus 5) June 10. 1927; a distance of 3,320 nautical miles at an average speed of 22.21 knots for the run. Captain H E. Lackey, U. S. N., was in command of the ship. The U. S. warship, Lexington, left her anchorage at San Pedro, Calif., at 1.01 p.m., on June 9. 1928, and arrived at Diamond Head Light, Honolulu at 11.08 a.m., on June 12-2,226 nautical miles in 72 hours, 36 minutes; an average speed of 30.66 nautical miles an hour. Fastest Trips Around the World 1872. A fictitious journey by Phileas Fogg in the world (15,596 miles) in 7 days, 18 hours, 4912 Jules Verne's novel, 80 days. Oct. 2 to Dec. 20. minutes-July 15, at 5:10 a.m., to July 22, at 11.5911⁄2 p.m. 1889. Nellie Bly, 72 days, 6 hours, 11 minutes. 1890. George Francis Train of New York, 67 days. 12 hours, 3 minutes. 1901. Charles Fitzmorris, Chief of Police of Chicago, 60 days. 13 hours, 29 minutes. 1903. J. W. Willis Sayre, Seattle, Wash. 54 days, 9 hours, 42 minutes. Henry Frederick, 54 days, 7 hours, 2 minutes. 1907. Col. Burnlay-Campbell, 40 days, 19 hours, 30 minutes. 1911. Andre Jaeger-Schmidt, 39'days, 19 hours, 42 minutes, 38 seconds. 1913. John Henry Mears, 35 days, 21 hours, 36 minutes. 1924. U. S. Army airplanes, 175 days (14 days, 15 hours actual flying time.) 1926. Edward S. Evans and Linton Wells for The World of New York, 28 days, 14 hours, 36 minutes, 5 seconds. Their mileage, by train and motor car, was 4,100; by plane, 6,300; by steamship, 8,000. 1928. John Henry Mears and Capt. C. B. D. Collyer, 23 days, 15 hours, 21 minutes, 3 seconds. They left New York (June 29,) by seaplane and overtook the Olympic off Long Island. From Cherbourg, July 5, they flew across Europe and Asia. reaching Tokio on (July 11.) They travelled by steamer to Vancouver, British Columbia, (July 20,) and flew thence to New York City, arriving July 22. 1929. German dirigible balloon, Graf Zeppelin, left Friedrichshafen, Germany, (July 31,) reached Lakehurst, N. J., Aug. 4,) left Lakehurst, Aug. 8, reached Friedrichshafen, (Aug. 10,) left there Aug. 14 and reached Tokio, Japan, (Aug. 19,) left there (Aug. 23,) and reached Los Angeles, Cal., (Aug. 26.) left there (Aug. 27.) and reached Lakehurst (Aug. 29,) left there (Sept. 1,) and reached Friedrichshafen (Sept. 4.) Approximate distance covered 21.700 miles; time from Friedrichshafen to Friedrichshafen (Aug. 10-Sept. 4) 20 days, 4 hours. 1931. Monoplane Winnie Mae (Wiley Post, pilot; Harold Gatty, navigator) around the northern air circumference of the world (15,474 miles) in 8 days. 15 hours, 51 minutes-June 23 at 4:56 a.m., to July 1, at 8:45 p.m. 1933. Monoplane, Winnie Mae (Wiley Post, alone), around the northern air circumference of James Mattern, a Texas airman, left Floyd Bennett Field (5:20 a.m., June 3.) and flew non-stop to Jomfruland, near Oslo (Norway); and thence. via Post's 1931 route, to Moscow, and across Siberia to Khabarovsk, where, on June 13, he left in bad weather for Nome, but had to turn back. On June 14 he started again and got as far as the Anadyr River, in Northeast Siberia (750 miles west of Nome) where he was forced down and his plane cracked up. He was rescued, injured, by fur traders. A Russian plane took him (July 20) to Nome, and thence an American plane landed him at Floyd Bennett Field on July 30. 1936. Three N. Y. City newspaper reporters left that city (Sept. 30,) each for a trip around the world to test the commercial flying routes. All went to Lakehurst, N. J., to board the Zeppelin Hindenburg, which took off at 11:17:27 p.m. The first to finish the trip was H. R. Ekins of the New York World-Telegram and the other ScrippsHoward newspapers. He returned at 11:14:20 a.m. Monday, Oct. 19, having made the trip approximately 25,654 miles from Lakehurst to Lakehurst in 18 days, 11 hours, 14 min. and 33 sec. The gross elapsed time from The World-Telegram building which he left at 8:17:30 p.m., back to it was 18 days, 14 hours, 56 min., 30 sec. The total flying time was 8 days, 10 hours, 26 min., and the average flying speed 127 m.p.h. Ekins' course was: By the Hindenburg to Frankfort, Germany; by Royal Dutch Airline to Batavia; by Netherlands Indian Airways to Manilla; by Pan American Airways to Alameda, Cal.; by United Airlines to Burbank, Cal., by T. W. A. to Newark, N. J. 1938. Howard Hughes, accompanied by four technical assistants, left New York City, (7:26 p.m., July 10,) and flew around the world via Paris, Moscow, U. S. S. R..; Omsk, U. S. S. R.; Yakutsk. U. S. S. R.: Fairbanks, Alaska; Minneapolis, Minn., and landed in New York City at 2:34.10 p.m.. completing the trip of 14,824 miles in 3 days, 19 hours, 8 minutes and 10 seconds. 1939. Mrs. Clara Adams of New York City departed from Port Washington, L. I. N. Y. (June 28) on the flying boat Dixie Clipper of the Pan American line and landed at Newark Airport (July 15), completing the around the world trip by air in 16 days, 19 hours, 4 minutes. Fast Atlantic Ocean Passages by Air DIRIGIBLE BALLOONS 1928. The Graf Zeppelin left Friedrichshafen, Germany (Oct. 11, at 2 a.m.), and arrived at Lakehurst, N. J. (Oct. 15, at 5:38 p.m.), having flown 6,630 miles in 4 days, 15 hours, 46 minutes. Graf Zeppelin made the trip by the way of Spain, the Madeiras and Bermuda. The 1936. The Hindenburg left Frankfort on the Main, Germany (June 30, at 12:29 a.m.) and reached Lakehurst (July 2 at 3:46 a.m.) making The dirigible the trip in 51 hours, 17 minutes. made the run over the Atlantic Ocean from Lands End, Northern Ireland, to Land Fall, over Labrador. in 22 hours, 50 minutes, after passing over the The Hindenburg left southern tip of Greenland. Lakehurst (Aug. 9, at 10:35 p.m.) and reached Frankfort (Aug. 11 at 5:28 p.m.) in 42 hours, 53 minutes. AIRPLANES 1919 U.S. Navy Seaplane NC4, Commander Albert C. Read and crew, flew from Newfoundland to Lisbon, Portugal, via the Azores (May 16-27). John Alcock and A. W. Brown flew non-stop from Newfoundland to Ireland, (June 14-15) a distance of 1960 miles in 16 hours, 12 minutes. 1925 Commander John Rodgers, U.S.N. and crew, flew from San Francisco Bay to within 100 miles of the Hawaiian Islands in September, drifted nine days and were rescued. land, Cal. to Australia, 8,000 miles, in three hops. (June-July.) 1931 Wiley Post and Harold Gatty crossed from Harbor Grace, Newfoundland, to England, 2,200 miles in 16 hours, 17 minutes (June 23-24.) 1932 Mrs. Amelia Earhart Putnam flew from Harbor Grace to Ireland 2,0261⁄2 miles in 14 hours, 56 minutes (May 20-21.) 1937 Henry T. Merrill and John S. Lambe flew from Bennett Field, Brooklyn, N. Y. to Croydon Airdrome, London, in 20 hours, 59 minutes (May 9-10.) They left Southport, England, with coronation photographs and reached Brooklyn in 24 hours, 22 minutes, 25 seconds, after a brief landing at (May 13-14.) Mikhail GromSquantum, Mass. off, Andrey Yumasheff and Sergei Danilin, Russian aviators, flew non-stop from Moscow to San Jacinto, Cal., approximately 6,262 miles, in 62 hours, 2 minutes, via the North Pole route (July 12-14.) 1938 Douglas G. Corrigan flew his nine-year-old $900 plane from Floyd Bennett Field, Brooklyn, N. Y. to Baldonnel Airfield, Dublin, in 28 hours, 13 minutes (July 17-18.) British Imperial Airways seaplane, Mercury, completed non-stop East-toWest flight from Foynes, Ireland to Montreal in 20 hours, 19 minutes. (July 20-21.) Also see 1938 above. 1940 The Yankee Clipper of Pan American Airways flew from LaGuardia Field, New York Munipal Airport, to Lisbon, Portgual (April 1-2, 1940) 1926 Lieutenant Commander Richard Evelyn in 18 hours 35 minutes flying time. The elapsed Byrd, U.S.N., flew from Spitzbergen to the North time was 21 hours 56 minutes. The return tripPole and return (May 9). Amundsen-Ellsworth- east-west, was made in 25 hours 1 minute with an Nobile expedition flew from Spitzbergen over the elapsed time of 27 hours 43 minutes. The round North Pole to Barrow, Alaska, in a dirigible land- trip flying time was 43 hours 36 minutes. The ing at Teller, Alaska, after having been lost over American Clipper flew from Lisbon to New York the Arctic area for seventy-eight hours. (May 12.).(April 15-16, 1940) in 23 hours 23 minutes 1927 Charles A. Lindbergh flew from Mineola, Atlantic Clipper of the Pan American Airways flew N. Y. to Paris, 3,600 miles, in 33 hours, 30 minutes (Oct. 22) from Bermuda to Lisbon, 3,118 miles, in (May 20-21.) Clarence Chamberlin and Charles Le- 18 hours 24 minutes. vine flew from Mineola, N. Y. to Eisleben, Germany, 3,911, in 42 hours, 31 minutes (June 4-6.) 1928 Charles Kingsford-Smith flew from Oak The 1941-The Atlantic Clipper of the Pan American Airways flew non-stop from Bermuda to Lisbon, in 16 hours 30 minutes (Jan. 21-22). Great Ocean Steamships and Motorships Source: Lloyd's Register of Shipping and the U. S. Maritime Commission Name Queen Elizabeth, Br.. *Oceania, It... 6*Neptunía, It. Ft.In. Ft.In. Ft.In. 19,507 589 7 76 7 45 5 19.475 589 7 76 5 45 1 30 7 J. v Oldenbarnevelt, H.. Europa, Ger. 49,746 890 2 102 1 48 0 Conte di Savola, It. 48,502 814 6 96 1 32 4 M v St. Aldegonde, Hol. 19,355 586 2 74 8 36 1 19,210 534 8 74 0 56 8 Aquitania, Br. 44,786 868 7 97 0 49 7 Windsor Castle, Br.. 19,141 661 3 Ile de France, Fr.. Nieuw Amsterdam, Holl. 36,287 713 7 88 3 50 0 Conte Verde, It.. 18,765 570 2 Mauretania. Br.. 18,713 655 1 1 America, U. S. 35.440 772 7 93 5 30 4 De Grasse, Fr. Scharnhorst, Ger. *Augustus, It. 30,418 710 9 82 8 46 5 Gneisenau, Ger 18,160 625 6 74 1 41 4 Pasteur. Fr. 30,000 656 2 87 9 30 5 *Gripsholm, Swed. 18,134 553 074 4 37 7 *Stockholm, Swed. 28,000 642 8 83 2 35 4 Mariposa, U. S. *Georgic, Br.. 27,759 683 682 4 486 Monterey, U. S... 18,017 604 0 79 3 30 5 Cap Arcona, Ger. 27,561 643 6 84 6 41 9 Lurline, U. S. *Dominion Monarch, *Capetown Castle, Br. 27,000 702 9 82 5 42 0 Reina del Pacifico, Br. 17.702 551 3 76 3 37 *Britannic, Br. Nissin Maru No. 2, Jap.. Empress of Japan, Br. 26,032 644 0 83 8 44 5 Aramis, Fr... Andes, Br.... 25,689 643 3 *Athlone Castle. Br 25.564 696 0 82 5 41 4 Kamakura Maru, Jap *Stirling Castle, Br.. 25,550 696 0 82 5 41 Aorangi, Br.... *Wilhelm Gustloff, Ger. 25,484 650 4 77 4 26 5 Pretoria Castle, Br. *Saturnia, It... 24,470 630 1 79 8 29 5 Durban Castle, Br. 17,226 554 083 2 30 44 1 Washington, U. 8. Conte Grande, It. 23,861 652 2 78 3 27 2 Baloeran, Holl. George Washington, U. S.. 23.788 690 1 Strathallan, Br 23,722 639 5 82 3 33 6 Asama Maru, Jap. 16,975 560 072 0 42 5 Stratheden, Br. 23,722 639 5 82 2 33 6 Kosmos II, Nor... Duilio, It.. 23,635 635 676 3 46 3 Empress of Asia, Br. Oslofjord, Nor. (18,673); Conte Rosso. Ital. (17.879); Caledonia, Brit. (17,040); Rangitare, Brit. (16.712); Rajputana, Brit. (16,644); Montrose. Brit. (16,402); Lancastria, Brit. (16,243): Anandora Star, Brit. (15.501); Veendam, Holl. (15,450): Liguvia, Ital. (15.354). The Bremen, Ger. (51,731) was destroyed by fire. The Monticello, U. S. (19.361) and the Mount Vernon. U. S. (18.372) were scrapped. The Rotterdam, Holl. (24,149), was scrapped. The above list is incomplete, but there were no available governmental sources of information during the war. |