Ocean Steam Navigation and the Ocean PostRainey, Thomas
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Ocean Steam Navigation and the Ocean Post
Rainey, Thomas
Mail steamers; Steam-navigation
Master General, and from the report of the British Post Master
General, Lord Canning, before noticed. Every item is consequently
authentic.
AMERICAN.
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| | | | Gross | Total |
Line. |Trips.|Distances.| Subsidy. | Postage. | Miles | Pay per Mile.
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Collins, | 20| 3,100| $385,000| $415,867|124,000| $3.10-1/2
Bremen, | 13| 3,700| 128,987| 128,937| 96,000| 1.34
Havre, | 13| 3,270| 88,484| 88,484| 85,020| 1.00-1/2
Aspinwall,| 24| 3,200| 290,000| 139,610|153,600| 1.88-3/4
Pacific, | 24| 4,200| 348,250| 183,238|201,600| 1.70
Havana, | 24| 669| 60,000| 6,288| 32,112| 1.86-1/2
Vera Cruz,| 24| 900| 29,062| 5,960| 43,200| .67
| | |==========|==========|=======|==================
| | |$1,329,733|$1,035,740|725,732|$1.80-3/4 Average.
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Total average per mile, $1.80-3/4. Average of five principal lines, $1.80-3/4.
BRITISH.
KEY:
A: Cunard,
B: Royal Mail,
C: Pen. and Oriental,
D: Australian,
E: Bermuda and St. Thomas,
F: Panama and Valparaiso,
G: West Coast Africa,
H: Channel Islands,
I: Holyhead and Kingston,
J: Liv. and Isle of Man,
K: Shetland and Orkneys,
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