[218] _Comparative Statement of Consumption of Coal in various Cunard Steamers._ --------------+-----------+--------------+-------------+------------- | | | Consumption | | | | of Coal per | Consumption | Indicated | Consumption | Indicated | of Coal Names of | Horse- | of Coal per | Horse-power | per Mile. Ships. | power. | Day. | per Hour. | --------------+-----------+--------------+-------------+------------- | | Tons | lbs. | Cwts. _Asia_ | 1,805 | 78 | 4·0 | 5·6 _Arabia_ | 3,005 | 116 | 3·6 | 7·5 _Persia_ | 4,026 | 150 | 3·47 | 9·0 _Scotia_ | 4,500 | 159 | 3·6 | 9·5 _Russia_ | 2,700 | 95 | 3·28 | 6·0 _Parthia_ | 1,950 | 42 | 2·0 | 3·3 _Bothnia_ | 2,543 | 64 | 2·34 | 4·1 _Abyssinia_ | 2,450 | 91 | 3·46 | 5·68 _Marathon_ | 1,450 | 35 | 2·25 | 2·5 _Sidon_ | 760 | 16 | 1·96 | 1·4 _Trinidad_ | 702 | 16 | 2·11 | 1·37 _Nantes_ | 687 | 15 | 2·03 | 1·38 _Sidon_ | 824 | 19 | 2·15 | 1·14 _Nantes_ | 620 | 13 | 1·95 | 1·32 --------------+-----------+--------------+-------------+------------- [219] See Appendix No. 11, p. 608. For this most valuable and instructive table I am altogether indebted to Mr. Burns, who considers toil a pleasure if he can only furnish information which may prove useful to the public. Indeed, had it not been for him and other gentlemen largely engaged in maritime commerce, who have so readily rendered me their aid (for which I tender my warmest thanks), I should not have ventured to offer to the public so large an amount of purely original matter as this volume contains. [220] See Appendix No. 10, page 608. _Note._—The Cunard Company, consisting, as I have explained, of only a few private individuals who started business just half a century ago, now own a fleet of steam-ships whose tonnage is greater by far than the whole mercantile steam shipping of the German Empire, and nearly half as great as that of France, Holland (once our greatest rival), and Hamburg put together. Since they commenced they have had no less than 164 steam-ships under their flag. They employ 6000 men, shipping and discharging in the course of one year, 42,000 seamen. See evidence of Mr. John Burns before the Royal Commission on Unseaworthy Ships, 1874. In 1871, France owned (including the vessels of the Messageries Maritimes) 160,478 tons; Holland, 36,644 tons; and Hamburg, 45,669 tons of steam shipping.