In their _Victoria_ may be seen a good specimen of a business ship, perhaps not so swift or so elegantly fitted as some of her competitors from Liverpool, or equal to their own latest ships, the _Ethiopia_, _Bolivia_, and _Anchora_,[270] but a vessel well adapted for the trade on which she is employed. The _Victoria_ is a sister ship to the _California_, launched from the shipbuilding yard, on the Clyde, of Messrs. Alexander Stephens and Sons, who have constructed a great many vessels for the Anchor Company. She is like all the other steamers now engaged in the Transatlantic trade, built of iron and propelled by the screw.[271] Though of larger capacity, she is said to have cost, complete for sea, somewhere about 100,000_l._ or 20,000_l._ less than the American iron screw ship _Pennsylvania_, to which reference has just been made, which was built about the same time on the Delaware. [Sidenote: Hamburg American Steam Packet Company.] But besides the fleets we have specially named there are other equally fine British steamers, plying between London and New York and Boston direct, and also _viâ_ Southampton and Havre; together with various other lines of first-class steamers engaged in the American trade belonging to France, Hamburg, and Belgium, though most of these are British built: for instance, the Hamburg and American Steam Packet Company have a large fleet of high classed steamers, comprising the _Suavia_,[272] _Pomerania_, _Thuringia_, _Hammonia_, _Westphalia_, _Silesia_, _Cimbria_, _Frisia_, and _Holsatia_, which leave Hamburg every Saturday throughout the year for New York; and another line of eight equally fine steamers, which trade with the West Indies and Mexico every month from Hamburg, calling alternately at Grimsby and Havre. [Sidenote: North German Lloyd’s Company.] There are also the steamers of the North German Lloyd’s, an old established company, trading between Bremen, Baltimore, and New York _viâ_ Southampton and Havre; while, besides those engaged in the trade with the United States, two lines of French steamers, most of which were built in England, now maintain a weekly intercourse between the ports of that country and the West Indies and Brazil. FOOTNOTES: [228] The dimensions of the _City of Manchester_ are as follows:—Length on deck, 274 feet with 38 feet breadth of beam. She registers 2125 tons, and is propelled by engines of 400-horse power, driving a three-bladed screw. Her two foremasts are of tubular plate-iron. [229] The _City of Paris_ conveyed, in 1869, His Royal Highness Prince Arthur (now Duke of Connaught) to America in _six days twenty-one hours_, the quickest passage ever made to any port of the New World from Cork. The Prince attended Divine Service at Queenstown on Sunday, embarked at four P.M. that day, and was landed at Halifax, Nova Scotia, at half-past ten A.M. on the following Sunday in time for Morning Service at that place, which he also attended, much to his credit.