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Ocean Steam Navigation and the Ocean Post
Rainey, Thomas
Mail steamers; Steam-navigation
Golden Gate, 2,067-35/95 tons: Golden Age, 2,280 tons: J. L. Stephens,
2,189 tons: Sonora, 1,616 tons: St. Louis, 1,621 tons: Panama,
1,087-31/95 tons: California, 1,085-64/95 tons: Oregon, 1,099-9/95
tons: Columbia, 777-34/95 tons: Republic, 850 tons: Northerner, 1,010
tons: Fremont, 576 tons: Tobago, 189 tons.
_Charleston, Savannah, Key West, and Havana, 1 steamer_, the Isabel,
1,115 tons.
_New-Orleans and Mexico, 1 steamer_, the Tennessee, 1,149-1/2 tons.
The Coasting Service has 8 lines, and 23 steamers, of 24,071 tons
registered tonnage.
_New-York, Havana, and New-Orleans_, 2. The Black Warrior, 1,556-1/95
tons: Cahawba, 1,643-1/95 tons = 3,199 tons.
_New-York, Havana, and Mobile_, 1. The Quaker City, 1,428-3/95 tons.
_New-York and Savannah_, 4. Alabama, 1,261-13/95 tons; Florida,
1,261-13/95 tons: Augusta, 1,310-61/95 tons; Star of the South,
(propeller,) 960-1/95 tons = 4,793 tons.
_New-York and Charleston_, 4. Columbia, 1,347 tons: Nashville, 1,220
tons: James Adger, 1,151 tons; Marion, 962 tons = 4,680 tons.
_New-York and Virginia_, 2. Roanoke, 1,071 tons: Jamestown, 1,300 tons
= 2,371 tons.
_Philadelphia and Savannah_, 2. Key Stone State and State of Georgia,
each about 1,300 tons = 2,600 tons.
_Boston and Baltimore_, 2. Joseph Whitney, 800 tons: Unknown, 800 tons
= 1,600 tons.
_New-Orleans and Texas._ The Charles Morgan, Texas, Mexico, and
Atlantic, averaging 600 tons each=2,400 tons.
_New-Orleans and Key West._ The General Rusk, 600 tons, and the
Calhoun, 400 tons = 1,000 tons.
There are also several propellers running: between New-York and
Charleston, New-York and Portland, and between Philadelphia and the
South. They are all, however, small, and irregular in their trade. The
Calhoun is not a regular steamship.
Steamers lying up, 18. Registered tonnage, 24,845 tons.
Queen of the Pacific, 2,801-92/95 tons.
Washington, 1,640-71/91 tons.
Prometheus, 1,207-61/95 tons.
St. Louis, 1,621-14/45 tons.
Brother Jonathan, 1,359-52/95 tons.
Oregon, 1,004-89/95 tons.
Southerner, 900 tons.
Herman, 1,734-45/95 tons.
Northern Light, 1,747-91/95 tons.
Uncle Sam, 1,433-44/95 tons.
California, 1,058 tons.
Northerner, 1,012 tons.
Ericsson, 1,902-1/95 tons.
Star of the West, 1,172-33/95 tons.
Daniel Webster, 1,035 tons.
Orizaba, 1,450-62/95 tons.
Panama, 1,087 tons.
Fremont, 576 tons.
The registered tonnage of these vessels was furnished me by Mr. S. P.
Ingraham, of the New-York Custom-House.
PAPER B.
The following paper, prepared by Mr. Pliny Miles from the reports to
which we have alluded, presents the British steam mail service in
full detail.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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