On Monday the Cunard liner Mauretania ' completed a remarkable
performance, as though to inaugurate the new route between Fishguard and New York. The homeward voyage to Queenstown was made in four days fourteen hours twenty-seven minutes, or two hours and fifty-three minutes less than the previous best voyage from New York. -From Queenstown the ship came for the first time to Fishguard, which was opened as a harbour exactly three years ago by the Great Western Railway Company. There is plenty of water in the harbour, and it is hoped that eventually large ships like the 'Mauretania' will be berthed alongside the quays, thus avoiding the use of tenders. It is estimated that by the adoption of Fishguard as a port of call for the Cunard liners the journey from New York to London will be reduced by about five hours. The Maurettenh ' dropped anchor at 1.20 p.m. on Monday. The mails and passengers were taken ashore in the tenders, and the first of the three special trains for Paddington started at 2.12 p.m. The new arrangement certainly worked extraordinarily well, and those who were responsible have a right to be proud of it. Passengers who left New York after breakfast on Wednesday morning dined in London on the following Monday night.
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