[33] "Greenock Advertiser," July 5th, 1839.
[34] "Greenock Advertiser," February 5th and May 25th, 1835.
[35] Fincham's "History of Naval Architecture," page 294.
[36] Sir Thomas Sutherland, in the "Pocket Book of the P. and O. Company" (1890), page 15.
[37] Fincham's "History of Naval Architecture," page 235.
[38] Sir John Ross's "Steam Communication to India by the Cape of Good Hope" (1838), page 31.
[39] "Greenock Advertiser," January 22nd, 1839.
[40] Fincham's "History of Naval Architecture," pages 320 and 321.
[41] Lindsay's "Merchant Shipping," vol. iv., page 86.
[A] It is difficult to determine in all cases the basis on which horse-power was computed. The figures given represent nominal horse-power, and in Sennett and Oram's "Marine Steam Engine" (page 3), the indicated horse-power is, for this early period, recorded as 1.8 times the nominal horse-power.