The Archive · 1936

S. Queen Mary Sets New Time

Fails to Win Blue Riband by Fraction of Knot New York, July 21, By a small margin the Cunard White Star liner Queen Mary has again failed to capture the Blue Riband of the Allantie for" Great Britain, On her arrival in Now York eatly this morning, her" commander, Sit Edgar "Britlen, announced that the vessel's time for the voyage from Cherbourg to the Ambrose Light was 4 days 8 hours 37 minutes. This ig 3 hours 5 minutes Tess than the time taken by the present record-holder, the French liner Normandie, for the voyage between Cherbourg and the Ambrose Light, on. the Southern, or Jonger route.

The Queen Mary's average speed was only 29.01 knots compared with, the \Normandie's 2068, Thus "the record remains unbroken-—Reuter,

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