ten o'clock in the morning
The passage of the `` Campania '' from Sandy Hook Light to Queenstown was made in less than five and one-half days , 5 days , 10 hours , and 47 minutes , or at an average speed of 21.82 knots per hour , the highest day 's run being 548 knots . At Queenstown Colonel Harris received telegrams and letters from his family saying that they would meet him at Leamington , and that Alfonso would meet his father at Liverpool . Reuben Harris wired his wife when his party expected to arrive . It was ten o'clock in the morning when the S.S. `` Campania '' arrived in the Mersey off Alexandra dock , and the company 's tender promptly delivered the passengers on the Liverpool Landing Stage . Gertrude was first to single out Alfonso , whose handkerchief waved a brother 's welcome to the old world . Alfonso was the first to cross the gangway to the tender , and rushed to his friends . The greeting was mutually cordial .