---------------------+--------+------------+----------------------+-------------------- Vessel’s Name. |Tonnage.|Horse-Power.| Proportion of Tonnage| Remarks. | | | to Power. | ---------------------+--------+------------+----------------------+-------------------- _Acadia_ (Cunard }| 1,136 | 400 | 1 h.p. = 2¾ tons | Exceedingly fast. Company) }| | | | | | | |{ 10¼ knots when _Oriental_ | 1,670 | 440 | 1 h.p. = 4 tons |{ deep on trial | | | |{ trip. | | | | _Great Western_ | 1,340 | 450 | 1 h.p. = 3 tons | | | | | _Great Liverpool_ | 1,543 | 464 | 1 h.p. = 3⅓ tons | | | | | | | | |{ Fast when light, _British Queen_ | 2,016 | 500 | 1 h.p. = 4 tons |{ and light stern | | | |{ breeze. | | | | _President_ | 2,366 | 540 | 1 h.p. = 4½ tons |{ Slow under any | | | |{ circumstances. | | | | _Liverpool_ (before }| 1,150 | 404 | 1 h.p. = 2½ tons | Slow and crank. alterations) }| | | | See Fincham’s “Naval Architecture.” [183] Letter from E—— in the _Civil Engineer and Architects’ Journal_, January 1841. [184] She was constructed of iron, and expressly for the Transatlantic trade. Her dimensions were, length of keel, 289 feet; 296 feet between the perpendiculars; and 322 feet over all. Her extreme breadth, 51 feet, with 32 feet 6 inches depth of hold, her main load draught of water being 16 feet; and her measurement 2984 tons, with engines of 1000 horse-power.