[26] Fry’s “History,” p. 309.
[27] “Whitaker’s Almanack,” 1897, p. 543.
[28] “Our Ocean Railways,” p. 119.
[29] “Statistical Year-Book, 1896,” under Railways, p. 20.
[30] The Duke of Wellington was 240.6 feet long, 60 feet beam, 3,826 tons burthen, and 2,500 horse-power. She was engined by Robert Napier & Sons, Glasgow, with geared engines and wooden cogs, and made 10.2 knots an hour on her trial trip in 1853. The Rattler, of 1851, was 179½ feet long, 32¾ feet beam, had geared engines of 436 horse-power, and attained a speed of 10 knots.
[32] Based on a compilation by Captain W. H. Smith.
[33] “Encyclopedia Brit.,” Vol. xvii., p. 581, 8th Ed.
[34] The Angloman was wrecked on the Skerries, in the Irish Sea, in February, 1897. The crew were rescued, but the ship, with her valuable cargo and a large number of cattle, became a total loss, though fully covered by insurance.
[35] The SS. Memphis, of the African Steamship Company, but employed by the Elder, Dempster Line, went ashore on the west coast of Ireland in a fog in November, 1896, and became a total wreck. Ten of the crew were drowned and 350 head of cattle.