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Excerpt from The Lusitania''s Last Voyage: Being a Narrative of the Torpedoing and Sinking of the R. M. S. Lusitania by a German Submarine Off the Irish Coast May 7, 1915
Friday noon (may 7) we made only 462 miles. This was partly accounted for by the fact that we picked up Greenwich time at Cape Clear and put the clock ahead 1 hour and 40 minutes.
The reason this small run impressed itself upon my mind was that I expected that when we sighted the Irish Coast the Lucy would show a burst of top speed and that we should go ?ying up at not less than Q5 miles an hour. The run up to Thursday noon (may 6) had been 484 miles, and so confident was I that she would put on steam that I bought the high number in the pool (for Friday), which was 499. It was the only pool I went into and I couldn''t help it, for the number sold at and at that price it looked like a bargain.
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Friday noon (may 7) we made only 462 miles. This was partly accounted for by the fact that we picked up Greenwich time at Cape Clear and put the clock ahead 1 hour and 40 minutes.
The reason this small run impressed itself upon my mind was that I expected that when we sighted the Irish Coast the Lucy would show a burst of top speed and that we should go ?ying up at not less than Q5 miles an hour. The run up to Thursday noon (may 6) had been 484 miles, and so confident was I that she would put on steam that I bought the high number in the pool (for Friday), which was 499. It was the only pool I went into and I couldn''t help it, for the number sold at and at that price it looked like a bargain.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Language - English
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Charles Emelius Lauriat
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ISBN - 9780266197409
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.0 cm
Page Count - 179
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Charles Emelius Lauriat
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ISBN - 9781331607892
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.0 cm
Page Count - 181
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