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London, Aug. 31.
The Queen Mary, pride of the Cunard-White Star's fleet, has wrested the Blue Riband of the Atlantic from the French liner Normandie, In_a record west-to-cast crossing, the British liner achieved an average speed of 30.63 knows compared with the Normandie'e 30.31 knots.
'The Queen Mary pasted' Bishop's Rock, Scilly Isles, at 8.12 last night, having taken three days, 23 hr, 87 min. for the crossing from Ambrose Light.
This was three hr. 31 min. less than the time taken by the Normandie when she broke the record, The Queen Mary now holds the record for both the west-to-east and case-to-west crossings.
On her last voyage to New York, she averaged 30.01 knots compared with the Normandie's record average of 29.94 knots.
'The Queen Mary's run for the 24 hours ending at noon to-day was 712 miles, at an' average speed of 30.06 knots, She had then covered 2,708 mites average speed of 30.68 knots compared with the Normandie's 3031 nots, Sixth Trip In recapturing the Blue Riband for Great Britain, the Queen Mary has accomplished this feat after almas: exactly seven years, It was on August 17, 1028, that the German Liner Bremen' won' the honour, which was previously held by the Mauretania for the record period of 21 years, After that, the Blue Riband was hold successively by the Europa, the Bremen for the second time," the Mahan liner Rex and then the Nor=
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