of the Liverpool Steam Shipowners’ Association of Liverpool, and an active politician, frequently called on to give evidence before Royal Commissions and Committees of the House of Commons. His life indeed affords an excellent example for the rising generation to follow. [232] Passengers landed at New York from the United Kingdom in 1870 by the following steamers:— ---------+------+------+---------+------+------- Line. |Trips.|Cabin.|Steerage.|Total.|Deaths. ---------+------+------+---------+------+------- Inman | 68 | 3,635| 40,465 |44,100| 22 National | 56 | 2,442| 33,494 |35,736| 35 Guion | 55 | 1,115| 27,054 |28,569| 18 Anchor | 74 | 1,637| 23,404 |25,041| 19 Cunard | 70 | 7,638| 16,871 |24,509| 10 ---------+------+------+---------+------+------- [233] On the average of the first seven voyages the _City of Chester_ performed the passage from New York to Queenstown in eight days, eleven hours, and twenty-six minutes. The _City of Richmond_, too, in her first seven voyages made the same passage on an average of eight days, eleven hours, and fifty-eight minutes; the last-named ship, having on one occasion (April 1874) made the run from Sandy Hook (New York) to Fastnet (60 miles from Cork Harbour) in seven days, twenty-three hours. [234] To these particulars Mr. Inman, in his evidence before the Committee of the House of Commons (Session 1874, p. 185) on tonnage measurement, adds, “the _City of Berlin_ is about 40 feet (depth) to the hurricane deck, and about seven feet six inches in addition to the poop, and about seven feet to the captain’s bridge above that.... The depth from the main deck is about twenty-four feet.” This ship on her trial trip over the measured mile indicated 5200 horse-power, and an average speed of 14·825 knots per hour. [235] The _City of Berlin_ has just (Sept. 1875) made the two fastest passages across the Atlantic yet on record. See Appendix No. 13, pp. 611-2. [236] The founder of this firm, Mr. Alexander Allan, a native of Saltcoats, North Britain, afterwards removed to Glasgow, and owned a numerous fleet of sailing-ships, one of which in early life he himself commanded. His eldest son, James, followed his example, as did also his third son, the late Bryce Allan, of Liverpool. Other two, Hugh (now Sir Hugh Allan) and Andrew, established themselves in Montreal, where they managed the shipping business of the family, and James, when he retired from the sea, formed with Bryce and their youngest brother, Alexander, the now important branch of their business at Liverpool.