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is said that she was the first liner to be 

 dubbed an " Atlantic Greyhound ". 



Heartened by the success of the Arizona 

 and the Alaska, the Guion Line now built 

 the Oregon, this was also a splendid vessel, 

 and promptly annexed the Blue Riband. 

 She came from the Clyde yards of Elder 

 & Co. She had a length of 500 ft., a beam 

 of 54ft., and the tonnage was 7,375, so 

 that she represented a considerable ad- 

 vance on the Arizona. It was, however, 

 the engines of the Oregon which were 

 considered the greatest achievement of the 

 marine designer and builder, they were of 

 the usual compound type, but they needed 

 an enormous amount of steam in com- 

 parison with what the preceding fliers had 

 used. The coal consumption had now 

 leapt up to 310 tons a day. 



Unfortunately the Guion Line could not 

 keep up the pace, and instead of their fast 

 ships making their business a successful 

 one, they found that they were losing 

 money, and with great regret they sold the 



