Four-Day Atlantic Steamship Service
Across the Atlantic in four days’ time, is the promise now made by a new steamship company which has been formed in England, says the London Times. The organization takes the name of The Ocean Rapid Transit Company, and has a capital of $30,000,000, all practically secured. Six steamships will be built, each to be driven by turbine steam engines, using Texas oil for fuel, which will be stored in ballast tanks at the ship’s bottom. The first service of this new fast line will be from Narragansett Bay directly across the Atlantic to Castletown Bereh Haven, where connection will be made with European railways and steamships. From the New York post office to the London post office the time by this route will be four and one-half days; from New York to Paris, five days; to Berlin, five and one-half days. The crude Texas oil which will be used for fuel, will cost only ten cents a barrel. The ships will be built in England, and carry the British flag, provided the British government will subsidize for the carrying of the mails. Otherwise they will be built in the United States, and carry the flag of this country.