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APPENDIX No.
1.
TRANSATLANTIC PACKET STATION COMMISSION.
QUERIES.
(No.
1.;
Queues.
1.
Cork.
Long Island (near Cape Clear).
Crookhaven.
Berehaven (Bantry Bay).
Valentia.
Tarbert (River Shannon).
Gal way.
Dunmanus Bay.
On -which of those ports can you give facts and confident opinions ?
To Naval Officers 2.
What are the advantages or disadvantages of establishing a Transatlantic Packet Station having served on *t any of those ports, with your reasons ?
the coast of Ireknd* 3.
What are the facilities or difficulties—with reference to shoals, rocks, or nature of coast, or to leading lights, or frequent haze—of making the west coast of Ireland, or the ports referred to in No.
1, at all seasons of the year, and in all weathers, by such vessels as Transatlantic Packets drawing 19% feet water, and as compared with each other, or with Liverpool, or the ports in the English Channel ?
4.
What light or headland would such vessels, homeward bound, first make for?
5.
What are the facilities afforded by each port, or likely to be created, for embarking and landing the mails, goods, and passengers, with convenience and rapidity at all times—such as wharves and docks; are they at all times available, or only in certain states of the tide; or is their use liable to be impeded during certain strong winds and bad weather ; what depth of water do the entrances, the wharf walls, and the approach to them afford?—and,
in width of entrance and approach, are they adapted to such vessels ?
6.
During the periods when the wharves or docks cannot be reached, what is the nature of the anchorage, and could mails, passengers, &c, be immediately and conveniently landed or embarked, in all weathers, by boats or small craft ?
7.
What are the conveniences afforded by the port or ports, or which may be expected to be created, for repairs and maintenance of the packets, and their engines, boilers, and machinery in general, as well as for obtaining supplies?—what
are the means for the storage of goods, and for the accommodation of passengers ?—what
for coaling ?
8.
What is the ordinary price of coal adapted to these vessels, and what might it probably be if the supply required at the port should by the proposed establishment greatly exceed the back freight, by which the price is probably now influenced?
9.
What are the means available now, or in contemplation for intercourse with the interior in different directions, and in particular towards the capital and the manufacturing districts ?—
and how would those communications be adapted for mails, passengers, and goods, in rapidity, security from loss and injury, and in expense?
10.
Add any other matter that may be conceived to bear upon the subject.
QUERIES.
(No.
2.)
1.
What is the value and number of the steam packets you are bound to keep up, to per-
^° Messrs.
Cunard form the voyages you have engaged to make in the year betwe'en Liverpool and New York ?
2.
What description of goods and tonnage do you generally take out; and, if you can, state from whence they are sent to Liverpool to be shipped ?
3.
What description of goods and tonnage do you generally bring home; and, if you can, state where they are sent to from Liverpool ?
4.
What was the number of cabin and steerage passengers whom each of the last four packets took out; the sum paid by one of each class of passengers; and the weight of luggage allowed without charge?
5.
What was the number of cabin and steerage passengers whom each of the last four packets brought home; the sum paid by one of each class of passengers, and the weight of luggage allowed without charge; and, if you can, state how many passengers had to pay for extra weight of luggage that came to England in each of the four last packets, and the charge per cwt.
?
6.
How much do you charge for cargo per ton; and how much per cargo for measurement ?
7.
Are any transit goods shipped at Liverpool from foreign countries in the North American Packets; and if so, from what countries do they come ?—What
is the description and tonnage of such goods ?—Are
they sent to Liverpool by sea—and from what port ?—or
by railroad, and by which ?
8.
If you have no objection, will you send us copies of the manifests of cargoes of the four last packets that sailed from Liverpool to New York, and of the four last from New York to Liverpool?
9.
What was the average rate per hour performed by each of the four last packets out and home ?
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