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Ocean Steam Navigation and the Ocean Post

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Paper D — Steam Lines Between Europe and America

Collins, steamers Adriatic, Atlantic, and Baltic; (running:)

Havre, steamers Arago, and Fulton; (running:)

Bremen, steamers North Star, and Ariel; (running:)

Havre, in connection with the Bremen. Steamer Vanderbilt; (laid up:)

Cunard, steamers Persia, Arabia, Asia, Africa, Canada, America, Niagara, and Europa; (running:)

Cunard, screw-steamers Etna, Jura, Emue, Lebanon, and Cambria, (side-wheel; all running:)

Glasgow, screw-steamers Glasgow, Edinburgh, and New-York; (running:)

Bremen, steamer Ericsson; run temporarily by Mr. Sands; (laid up:)

Liverpool and Portland, screw-steamers Khersonese and Circassian, General Williams and Antelope; the two latter about 1,500 each, running via St. John’s, N. F., the two former chartered for the East-Indies:

London and Montreal, screw-steamers; (names not known:)

Liverpool and Quebec, screw-steamers; (names not known:)

Liverpool and New-York, screw-steamers City of Manchester, City of Baltimore, City of Washington, and Kangaroo, (running;) (line ran to Philadelphia and was withdrawn:)

Hamburg and New-York, screw-steamers Borussia and Hammonia; building two more steamers, each 2,000 tons, in the Clyde, for same line; (running:)

Antwerp and New-York, screw-steamers Belgique, Constitution, Leopold I., Duc de Brabant, and Congress. Taken off and chartered to British Government for transporting troops. Names altered:

London, Cork and New-York, screw-steamers Minna and Brenda; (laid up:)

Havre and New-York, screw-steamers Barcelona, Jacquart, Alma, and François Arago, withdrawn, and running from Spain to Cuba. (See Paper C.)

Bremen and New-York. The North Dutch Lloyds are building four screw-steamers in the Clyde, of near 3,000 each, to run between Bremen and New-York:

The Continent, Southampton and New-York. Croskey’s lino consists of the following screws, of about 2,300 tons each: the Argo, Calcutta, Queen of the South, Lady Jocelyn, Hydaspes, Indiana, Jason, and Golden Fleece. (Most of these steamers have been withdrawn from the route, and five of them are chartered for troops for India.)

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