The Arabia, on her last passage to Liverpool, made the run in 9 days, 17 hours, 11 minutes, the fastest passage ever made, by 15 minutes. We.ll, the trial of speed is coming pretty close when the difference is measured by minutes, the way we would measure a race to Albany.
This article was originally published with the title "Atlantic Races" in Scientific American 8, 44, 348 (July 1853)
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican07161853-348h