Repair Lusitania's Turbine At Sea.

New York Times 100 years ago today, August 4, 1912:
Hard Work for Engineers to Remove a Ton-and-a-Half Bearing and Replace It.
MANY CAUSES DELAY SHIP
Which Arrives Twenty-four Hours Late, Bringing Many Well-Known New Yorkers as Passengers.
    The Cunard liner Lusitania arrived yesterday morning twenty-four hours late, owing to various causes, including a mishap to the port high-pressure turbine, very rough weather in the Irish Sea, fog off the Grand Banks; and unusually warm weather crossing the Gulf Stream, which made it difficult for the men below to get up steam. She brought 448 first, 415 second, and 749 third class passengers, and about 3,500 sacks of mail.
    About 9 o'clock last Saturday night, when the Lusitania was proceeding from Liverpool to Queenstown, Chief Engineer Alexander Dunbar informed Capt. Charles that the bearings of the port, high-pressure turbine had become so hot that part of the brass cap had melted, and the bearing would have to be taken off and another one substituted.
    This meant that a mass of metal weighing a ton and a half would have to be removed, and a bearing of the same weight be put down in its place.
    Every spare man among the 32 engineers and the stoke hole crowd of firemen and trimmers numbering 332 were requisitioned for the task, and Staff Capt. J. F. Simpson was asked to send along as many men as could be spared from the deck department to bear a hand in the pulley-hauling part of the work.
    The spare bearing was stowed forward on the starboard side of the firemen's quarters, and it took close upon twelve hours for the gangs of firemen and sailors to haul it over to the port side in the narrow tunnel on the lower deck to the position most convenient for the engineers to hoist it into the place of the bearing which had to be removed.
    During the twenty-four hours from Sunday to Monday noon the Lusitania only made 469 miles, and for the trip her average was 21.19 knots.
    This is not the same turbine that was put out of commission three trips ago, but it was on the same side of the ship, and the lower pressure port turbine instead of the high pressure.
    Frank A. Vanderlip, President of the National City Bank, who was a passenger on the Lusitania, said that he had been abroad a month. Regarding business conditions on the other side Mr. Vanderlip said to the reporters:
    "England is in much better shape than she has been for some time past. The labor situation, however, strikes an outsider as being the only irritant. Lloyd-George and the now low price of Consols, or Government owned franchise, have about ceased to bother the financial world. England is building more ships than all the rest of the world put together."
    A. W Smithers, Chairman of the Grand Trunk Railroad of Canada, came to make his annual inspection of the company's lines and is accompanied by his wife and son.
    Miss Inez Milholland, the suffragist, who was also a passenger, said that the movement was progressing favorably on the other side and its members were not daunted by a few days or weeks in prison. She thought that Lloyd-George was in favor of the middle classes and sustained them while he flouted the working men in England.