Articles for Daily Use.—A knife, fork, table and tea spoon, a pen knife, a hook pot, a baking can, a tin pot, capable of holding 2 or 3 gallons of water, a lantern, brushes, combs, a mirror and tooth and hair brushes with washing basin and a slop pail for each mess.
| The Weekly Dietary Scale. | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Second Cabin. | |||
| Day of Week. | Breakfast. | Dinner. | Tea or Supper. |
| Sunday. | Coffee, biscuits and butter. | Preserved potatoes, preserved meat, plum duff. | Tea, biscuits and butter. |
| Monday. | do. | Pea soup, & pork, biscuits, mustard and pepper. | do. |
| Tuesday. | Coffee, biscuits, butter, cheese. | Salt beef, preserved potatoes and plum duff. | do. |
| Wednesday. | Coffee, biscuits and butter. | Same as Monday. | do. |
| Thursday. | do. | Same as Sunday. | do. |
| Friday. | do. | Pork & pea soup or salt fish with rice and butter. | do. |
| Saturday. | Porridge with butter, molasses or sugar. | Salt beef and rice with molasses & biscuits. | do. |
| Intermediate Cabin. | |||
| Day of Week. | Breakfast. | Dinner. | Tea or Supper. |
| Sunday. | Coffee, biscuits and butter. | Preserved meat & plum duff. | Tea, biscuits and butter. |
| Monday. | do. | Pork, pea soup & biscuits. | do. |
| Tuesday. | do. | Salt beef, plum duff & biscuits. | do. |
| Wednesday. | do. | Pork, pea soup, & biscuits. | do. |
| Thursday. | do. | Preserved meat, plum duff and biscuits. | do. |
| Friday. | do. | Pork, pea soup & biscuits. | do. |
| Saturday. | do. | Salt beef, rice, molasses and biscuits. | do. |
Each mess may have oatmeal cakes and loaf bread fired three or four times a week.
The Eagle, which was commanded by Captain Francis Boyle and owned by Gibbs & Bright, of Liverpool, may be taken as a good example of a well-run ship in the Australian emigrant trade during the fifties.
The above account was published in a newspaper printed on board, and gives a very thorough account of the routine. This, of course, varied in different ships and under different captains, but in the main points the methods of the best lines were the same.
On the passage during which the foregoing account was written, the Eagle went out from Liverpool to Hobson’s Bay in 80 days, her best 24 hours’ run being 315 miles.
Liverpool Shipowners in the Australian Trade.
Thanks to the activity and enterprise of Liverpool shipowners in ordering new ships, Liverpool became the starting point of the rush to the gold regions—the chief emigration port in the British Isles, not even excepting London. And such a name did Liverpool ships gain for their speedy passages that “Liverpool on her stern and bound to go” became a regular saying amongst seamen in the fifties.