Ten Thousand Miles at Over Fourteen Knots The motor vessel Silverguava, which left Singapore on June 4, arrived at New York on July 10, The distance totalled 10,483. miles, the actual steaming time being 344 days. Between Singapore and New York the vessel called at Port!
Swettenham, Belawan, Penang, Colombo and Port Said and the speed. maintained averaged 14.2 knots, notwithstanding a strong southwest monsoon which was encountered between Penang and Colombo.
The MLV. Silverguava is one of the new round-the-yond express motor vessels belonging to the Silver Line, Led, which run from New York via the Panama Canal to Japan, China, the Philippines, Java, Straits Settlements and Colombo and return to New York via Suez.
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