The Archive · 1934

Bremen Captures Blue Riband of Atlantic

New York, Nov

The crack North German lod liner Bremen to-day captured the coveted Blue of the Aus:

by clipping 29 minutes from the record for & trans-Atlan= tie crossing from. Cherbourg, Fr ice, to Ambrose Channel light-which was established last year by her sisters hi The Bremen, which arrived here to-day, passed Ambrose Channel lightship, which Is stationed in the harbour here, four days 18 hours and 27 minutes after leaving the Cherbourg breakwater—Reuter. fo. return owing to retract able under-carriage of their machine having jammed.

On the third day of the race, after they had succeeded in reaching Al-withdrew from the competition one of their pistons seized and the cylinder had Burned through. " They announced then that they would return to England in easy stages in their D. i. Comet—Reuter, IMPERIAL AIRWAY'S ROUTES,

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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