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This article needs distance in kilometres and speed in km/h. Lightmouse (talk) 12:15, 7 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Westbound

The last "superliner" to hold the trophy was SS United States, which set a time that was not beaten until 1990.

That makes it sound as though it no longer has one of the trophies. Traumatic (talk) 10:28, 6 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Inman City of Paris and Cunard Russia

Anyone know why the Inman Line City of Paris of 1866 and the Cunard Line Russia of 1867 are not included on this list? Gibbs reports that in November 1866, the City of Paris won record in the western direction and Russia won the eastbound record in 1867. Specifically, the City of Paris recorded a 8 days, 4 hours 1 minute (13.75 knot) voyage from Queenstown to New York and Russia recorded 8 days, 0 hours, 28 minutes (14.2 knots) from New York to Queenstown. Apparently, while the City of Paris had a longer time than the Scotia record, she claimed a faster speed because she supposedly used a longer route than Scotia. Russia's record appears to be both faster and shorter.

(GRUBBXDN (talk) 16:06, 24 January 2009 (UTC))[reply]

Tables

The tables for the eastbound record holders and Hales Trophy holders are careful to point out they are "Not to be confused with Blue Riband holders"; but if the term only came into use (and the rules set down) around 1910, surely the westbound record holders before then weren't Blue Riband winners either. Surely they shoud be tabled separately with the same (or a similar) caveat. Does anyone know when this codification actually happened? Xyl 54 (talk) 19:35, 12 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Limited to steamships?

Is the Blue Riband designation limited to steamships? Sailing packets had achieved considerably better than the time achieved by Sirius and by that time they had all the qualities of passenger liners: regularly schedules, taking of passengers, etc.

According to Carl Cutler, the packet ship Emerald sailed from Liverpool to Boston in 15 days 10 hours arriving on March 8, 1824. This was certainly exceptional, although a time of 15 days 23 hours was achieved by the Columbia from Portsmouth to New York arriving April 17, 1830. See Greyhound of the Seas (3rd ed), 1984, p410. Chris55 (talk) 09:08, 18 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Would the Titanic have won?

Would the Titanic have won the Blue Riband if it had arrived safely?

141.117.1.162 (talk) 16:53, 7 March 2014 (UTC) L. Fernandes March 7, 2014[reply]

This is not a discussion page for the topic, only for the article. Chris55 (talk) 17:12, 7 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Dutch ships

I cannot beleive that this list is full of English ships. I am sure that ther emust have been Dutch ships crossing at winning speeds - but they are left out of the classification as it appears. Is this another example of the Anglo-Saxon media bubble happening? 94.213.30.93 (talk) 19:33, 12 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Was the Red Jacket omitted from the tables for a reason? And should a category for sail vs powered be included?

It says in the body of the article that the Red Jacket crossed eastbound in 13 days ish -- but it is not in the corresponding table. Is there a reason for this?

Also should a column designating sail vs powered crossing be entered?

69.25.143.33 (talk) 20:57, 2 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]