New York, Aug. 24, The Cunard-White Star liner Queen Mary broke the Normandie's record for an cast-to-west Atlantic crossing.
Her average speed of 30.01 knots compared with the Normandie's time fon her maiden voyage—trom Cowes, 50 miles longer—of four days, 11 hr 42 min,, at an average speed of 20.04 knots.
To gain the Blue Riband, however, the Queen Mary must improve on the Normandie's west-to-east crossing last year, when the French line's average speed was 30.1 knots, The Cunard-White Star Line claims that the Queen Mary beat the Nor-manche's east-to-west record by four 30 min, and that her average speed was 6 knots better, Towards the end of her voyage, the Queen Mary encountered some fog, but her progress was not much impeded and, when passing the Nan-tucket Lightship, her speed was 305 knots, In view of the wide margin by which the Normandie's time has been beaten, high hopes. are entertained that, on her eastward. voyage, the Queen Mary will wrest the Blue Riband from the Prench liner.
'There was much excitement among the Queen Mary's 1,038 passengers when' it became Known that the westward record had been broken,
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