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oe | MARINE REVIEW AND MARINE RECORD. Roanoke, 1851. ° NEW YORK AND PORTLAND: Maine S:. SiC. 2. 3 < NEW YORK AND Pai pee eet & Wood NEW YORK AND 'SALEM: | Murray 6: Ferris (...00°. 00.7% NEW YORK. AND BOSTON: Metropolitan ..... MaMOry ey ier ee ial NEW YORK AND PHILADELPHIA Wortitard's 6.5.05 Se NEW YORK AND WASHINGTON- ALEXANDRIA: Merchant's Line... . NEW YORK & NEWBERN, N. C.: Murray @& Werrish 235, ck NEW YORK AND NORFOLK: Old Dominion: Wines... 3.4.0.2. Virginia (S. Si Cons: a. NEW YORK AND WILMINGTON: Wilmington & Charlotte §..S. Co.. MMR DANO oe eis Morlard's Line. 3 ee NEW YORK AND CHARLESTON: Morgan Line NEW YORK AND SAVANNAH: Murrayick Perris). 5.0 ote dalvingston, & Wox 2)... . ey . Lowden... GATPISON «75.7625 ° NEW YORK AND BRUNSWICK AND es sl iam Hand's Line . : NEW YORK AND Ae. CRANE: Cromwell Line . . Merchant's Line (Baker) e Southern Line (Mallory) NEW YORK AND Jutsu Texas Line . . wives = aoa aot FF f { ey | . ~~ ~-- mos -- oan sa aot Fa ares ~--a IO "PU mn I ( 2 March, 1872. Steamers cleared from New York Type - Gross : . tons. Franconia . . . . Wood, sew. 674 i Chesapeake . . Wood, sew. 496 Wamsutta . Wood, sew. 328 : Acushnet . . Wood, sew. 325 Norwich Wood, sew. 367 Alliance Iron, scw. 413 Glaucus . . . . Wood, sew. 1,849 Nereus . .. . . Wood, sew. 1,849 Neptune ... . . Wood, sew. 1,848 Mile sts Sos Wood, sew. 418 Benefactor . . Iron, sew. 844 Wanita. 27.6. Iron, sew. 432 Volunteer . . Iron, sew. 611 E. C. Knight . . Wood, sew. 421 John Gibson Wood, scw. 444 ; Zodiac . . . Wood, sew. 606 Bllen S. Terry . . Iron, sew. 354 Wyanoke . . Iron, p.w. 2,067 Isaac Bell . - Wood, p.w. 1,612 Albemarle . Wood, p.w. 871 Wm. P. Clyde Wood, sew. 504 Ge7B;. Upton: .. Wood, sew. 607 i Francis Wright . Wood, sew. 597 Metropolis Wood, sew. 879 i Regulator Tron, sew. 847 Fanita . - Iron, sew. 432 ' Georgia . . . . Iron, p.w. 1,900 South Carolina Iron, p.w. 1,650 ] Champion . . Iron, p.w. 1,452 Manhattan . Wood, p.w. 1,338 + Charleston © «. Wood; p.w.. 1,227 James Adger . . Wood, p.w. 1,085 J Teo): 233. ee "WO0Od, SCW. 924 > WAL POM es ca, Wood, sew. 1,148 General Barnes . Wood, sew. 1,295 Herman Living- ston . - . Wood, p.w. 943 - Montgomery . . Wood, sew. 1,100 Huntsville Wood, sew. 825 Magnolia . . . . Wood, p.w. 1,068 San Salvador . . Wood, p.w. 971 J Mercedita Wood, sew. 856 2 Ashland . Wood, sew. 761 5 Cortes . - Wood, sew. 1,246 ) St Lois Iron, sew. 1,062 | Geo. Washington. Wood, scw. 989 Geo. Cromwell . . Wood, sew. 979 J Western MetropolisWood, p.w. | 2,092 United States . . Wood, sew. 1,180 | General Meade . . Iron, sew. 1,108 Sherman ; Iron, sew. 973 f Emily B. Souder. . Wood, sew. 779 | City of Galveston. Wood, sew. 1,253 HIQUATOR: 3 a. Wood, sew. 1,044 MICtOM co Wood, sew. 1,327 Gen'l Sedgwick . Wood, sew. 691 | City of Houston...JIron, sew. 1,253 Clyde. ace, Iron, scw. 1,182 ) Wilmington . . Iron, sew. 895 Ariadne . . . . . Wood, sew. 792 during March' tons cleared No of de Total gross we Hn e oO 978 1,193 22,185 418 6,684 1,309 1,920 17,004 3,833 ay ¢ 879 2,126 19,204. 17,481 3,284 4,276 6,127 4,315 » 4,122 part- om New York a 12 10 12 13 17 ures fr * (Aug. 14 It is interesting to N, Y. and Virginia S S.Co. 1,071 Tons. .. note that the different coastwise lines on the Atlantic which have not made New York their port, may be safe- ly excluded in compil- ing an article of this sort. With a few ex- ceptions, which will be noted hereafter, they have been of very slight importance, frem the first foundations of the traffic until the present time, and the New York steamers have been foremost in size, speed and design. The following table shows the names of the steam- ers clearing coastwise during March, 1852, together with their type and gross tons, and the total gross tonnage cleared and number of departures from New York _ during the month are also included. It will be seen that no attempt is made to compare the entire fleets during the dif- ferent decades represented, but merely the ships which cleared in the single month. The table shows that the United States Mail Steamship Co. operated the largest ships of the decade which ran from New York to another American port on the At- lantic, and, in fact, the Georgia, 2,727 tons, was larger than some of the smaller coasting steamers oo present day. During the month of March, 1862, taken to complete the chronological order of the periods, the coastwise service was prac- tically non-existent, owing to the blockad- ing of the southern ports and the employ- ment of the steamers in government ser- vice. There were no lines at all, in fact, which cleared steamers to the southern ports, although the Pacific Mail, Allen's Aspinwall, and Ludlow & Heineken's Havana lines continued running. Crom- well's line from New York to Portland was also in operation during this period, with the steamer Chesapeake, and there were small steamers between New York and Boston, Philadelphia, Providence, Trenton and Baltimore. But the practi- cal suspension of all coasting business is shown by the fact that there were five arrivals and six clearances during the month, and of the seven steamers repre- sented, all except the Chesapeake cleared for Panama, Aspinwall or Havana. The Boston & Philadelphia Steamship Co. was, however, in operation at this period, with the Saxon, and therefore the Chesa-. peake and the Saxon must stand as the sole representatives of the period chosen. The Chesapeake was a wooden propeller of 496 tons, built at Philadelphia in 1863. and was subsequently bought by Crom- well's Portland agents, and operated by them, after he had withdrawn his service. The Saxon, which is still running be- tween Philadelphia and Providence, and was launched early in '62, was of 1,203 tons; a very fine boat for the period. Several of the accompanying illustra- tions, however, show the general progress of coastwise marine architecture in the sixties. The Morro Castle, one of the best boats on the coast, ran to Havana and elsewhere on Spofford, Tiletson & Co.'s line. She was a paddle steamer of 1,680 tons, built at New York in 1864, with an oak hull. The Bienville, of Livingston & Fox's line, was a wooden vessel of 1,468 tons, built at Williams- burgh, in 1860. The Quaker City ran dur- ing the latter sixties on the regular line to Charleston, Leavy, agent. She had pre- viously been engaged in off-shore service and was built in 1854. The 1872 decade is of unusual interest because of the number of lines engaged, and because of the activity of the competi-