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The Blue Riband () is an unofficial accolade given to the single hull passenger liner crossing the Atlantic Ocean in regular service with the record highest speed in a westbound direction, i.e. against the Gulf Stream. The term was borrowed from horse racing and was not widely used until after 1910. Traditionally, the record is based on average speed rather than passage time because ships follow different routes.. Unofficial records could be set on eastbound salings, but they would not officially earn the Blue Riband. * Of the 35 Atlantic liners to hold the Blue Riband, 25 were British, followed by five German, three American, as well as one each from Italy and France. Thirteen were Cunarders (plus Queen Mary of Cunard White Star), 5 by White Star, with 4 owned by Norddeutscher Lloyd, 2 by Collins, 2 by Inman and 2 by Guion, and one each by British American, Great Western, Hamburg-America, the Italian Line, Compagnie Générale Transatlantique and finally the United States Lines. * The record set by United States in 1952 remains unbroken by any passenger liner. The next-longest period through which the Blue Riband was retained was 19 years, held from 1909 to 1929 by Mauretania. The shortest period was 6 weeks, by Bremen from July to August 1933. * Many of these ships were built with substantial government subsidies and were designed with military considerations in mind. Winston Churchill estimated that the two Cunard Queens helped shorten the Second World War by a year. The last Atlantic liner to hold the Blue Riband, the SS United States, was designed for her potential use as a troopship as well as her service as a commercial passenger liner.There was no tangible award until 1935, when Harold K. Hales donated the Hales Trophy; though the rules for the Hales Trophy were different from the traditional rules for the Blue Riband (for example, the Hales Trophy could be awarded for both eastbound and westbound records) and it changed several times in the years to come. It was awarded to just three Blue Riband holders during the express liner era. The trophy continues to be awarded, albeit most recently in 1998 to a catamaran express ferry carrying no passengers, but many people believe the United States remains as the true holder of the original Blue Riband because no subsequent record breaker was in traditional Atlantic passenger service and a single hull liner.There is no ship capable of winning the original Blue Riband today, because the contestant must be a mono-hull passenger liner, and the large cruise ships of our time and age have neither the hull shapes nor the propulsion necessary to achieve the speeds of which the last great liners were capable. The new Queen Mary II comes close, being constructed in the sleek form of a liner, but cannot quite reach the maximum speed of the last winner, the United States. * The Ocean Rowing Society inspired by The Blue Riband concept created Blue Riband Trophy of Ocean Rowing awarded to the fas... |