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IN connexion with the launch of the Cunard White Star Atlantic Liner No. 534, named at the launch on September 26 by the Queen, S.S. Queen Mary, the Times on September 25 published a supplement containing a series of articles and illustrations dealing with Atlantic travel in general and the new vessel in particular. Though it is several times pointed out that No. 534 has been designed with the definite objective of maintaining a weekly service between Great Britain and the United States with two ships instead of three as at present, yet many will hope that her performances will be such that she will in every way prove a worthy sticcessor to the famous Mauretania, and regain for Great Britain the record ‘ lost a year or two since to Germany and then to Italy. The commercial aspects of the Atlantic service, however, are touched upon by Mr. E. F. Spanner who, when speaking of high speed and sailing schedules, says that speed is expensive at all times and only such speed as is essential to provide for the maintenance of a regular weekly schedule of sailings could be regarded as justifiable. The de signed speed of No. 534 is 28 knots, and to have given her a speed of 30 knots would have required 21 per cent more power.
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The Cunard White Star Liner Queen Mary. Nature 134, 488 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/134488a0
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