Paper A. List of American Ocean Steamers
The mail service has 8 lines, and 21 steamers in commission, of 48,027 registered tonnage. Much of this tonnage belongs to supply ships, as for instance those of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company. (See Section I.)
Collins Line, 3 steamers, 9,727 tons.
Adriatic, 4,14474/95 tons: Atlantic, 2,84966/99 tons: Baltic, 2,7331/95 tons.
Havre Line, 2 steamers, 4,548 tons.
Arago, 2,240 tons: Fulton, 2,308 tons.
Vanderbilt Bremen Line, 3 steamers, 6,523 tons.
North Star, 1,86760/95 tons: Ariel, 1,29528/95 tons: VanderbiltH, 3,36054/95 tons.
United States Mail Steamship Company, 6 steamers, 8,544 tons.
Illinois, 2,12365/95 tons: Empire City, 1,75121/95 tons: Philadelphia, 1,2381/95 tons: Granada, 1,05890/95 tons: Moses Taylor, 1,200 tons: Star of the West, chartered, 1,1721/95, (contracting for a new ship.)
Pacific Mail Steamship Company, 13 steamers, 16,421 tons.
Golden Gate, 2,06735/95 tons: Golden Age, 2,280 tons: J. L. Stephens, 2,189 tons: Sonora, 1,616 tons: St. Louis, 1,621 tons: Panamá, 1,08731/95 tons: California, 1,08564/95 tons: Oregon, 1,0999/95 tons: Columbia, 77734/95 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, 1,1491/2 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, 1,5561/95 tons: Cahawba, 1,6431/95 tons = 3,199 tons.
New-York, Havana, and Mobile, 1. The Quaker City, 1,4283/95 tons.
New-York and Savannah, 4. Alabama, 1,26113/95 tons; Florida, 1,26113/95 tons: Augusta, 1,31061/95 tons; Star of the South, (propeller,) 9601/95 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. |
| Panamá, | 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.
Notes
H Independent, running between New-York, Southampton, and Havre, in connection with the Bremen steamers.