------------------+---------+--------+-------+-------+------- Name | Month |Distance|Average|Average|Fastest | | | Speed | for | Day’s | | | | Eight | Run | | | |Months |during | | | | |Season ------------------+---------+--------+-------+-------+------- New York and | | Knots | Knots | Knots | Knots Queenstown | | | | | ------------------+---------+--------+-------+-------+------- City of Paris |August | 2,788 | 20.01 | 19.02 | 515 | | | | | ------------------+---------+--------+-------+-------+------- City of New York |October | 2,775 | 19.64 | 19.02 | 502 | | | | | ------------------+---------+--------+-------+-------+------- Majestic |September| 2,780 | 19.64 | 19.00 | ... ------------------+---------+--------+-------+-------+------- Teutonic |August | 2,806 | 20.18 | 18.84 | 512 ------------------+---------+--------+-------+-------+------- Etruria |July | 2,845 | 18.80 | 18.29 | 481 ------------------+---------+--------+-------+-------+------- Umbria |August | 2,835 | 19.20 | 18.15 | 498 ------------------+---------+--------+-------+-------+------- City of Rome |Aug.-Sep.| 2,787 | 16.73 | 16.18 | 424 ------------------+---------+--------+-------+-------+------- New York and | | | | | Southampton | | | | | ------------------+---------+--------+-------+-------+------- Columbia |October | 3,045 | 19.15 | 18.68 | 492 ------------------+---------+--------+-------+-------+------- Normannia |August | 3,045 | 18.91 | 18.41 | 486 ------------------+---------+--------+-------+-------+------- Augusta Victoria |September| 3,049 | 18.31 | 17.52 | 470 ------------------+---------+--------+-------+-------+------- Lahn |October | ... | ... | 17.29 | ... ------------------+---------+--------+-------+-------+------- NOTE.—The nautical mile is one-sixtieth of a degree of the Equator, and is usually reckoned 6,080 feet, the statute mile being 5,280; twenty nautical miles are thus about twenty-three statute miles. The shortest distance is the arc of the great circle of the Earth passing through the two ports; any deviation from this by varying the course on account of intervening land or ice increases the distance to be run.