EXPLANATION OF THE PLATES,
471
PLATE XCIV.
VIEW OF THE PACHA’S STEAM VESSEL OF WAR, THE NILE, AT SEA,
IN THE NILE.
The construction of this vessel is shewn in Plates CIV. to CVIL, and full parti
culars respecting her will be found in the description of those plates.
PLATES XCV. and XCVI.
THE HONOURABLE EAST INDIA COMPANY’S STEAM VESSEL BERENICE.
This beautiful vessel, which is of 680 tons, was built in the Clyde by Messrs.
Wood; and her engines, 230 horse power, were manufactured by Mr. Robert Napier,
of Glasgow.
From the log of her voyage from Falmouth to Bombay by the Cape of Good Hope,
performed between the middle of March and the middle of June 1837, the results
expressed in the following Table have been derived :—-
!
Voyage performed.
Distance in
nautical miles.
Time
occupied, in
days and
hours.
Rate per hour
in miles.
Coal expended.
cc
G
■ n-f 0
Tallow
expended.
C8 '
« O m
0 ü sg
Mea
sured.
By log.
Meas.
dist.
Log.
dist.
tons.
cwts. per
hour.
Oil es
pendei
in gal]
¿4 *+•<
73 O d
£ s 2
pos
Falmouth to Tene-)
riffe. 3
1430
1572
d.
7
h.
7
8*2
8-9
127
14*5
124
380
11*2
Teneriffe to Mayo )
B. Vista i
840
952
4
9
8-0
9-0
84
16-2
17
240
10*0
Mayo B. Vista to >
Fern. Po 3
2180
2272
11
5
8*1
8-4
155
11-4
39
1770
14-1
Fernando Po to}
Cape Good Hope. )
2340
2594
14
5
6*8
76
267
15-6
52
1614
8*1
Cape Good Hope to )
Mauritius 3
2290
2692
13
0
73
8^6
246
16-2
48
578
9.3
Mauritius to Bom« )
bay 3
2520
2847
13
18
7-6
8*6
197
119
55
—
14-4
The boilers are three in number and of copper; they are blown out every two
hours. There is no gauge on the steam-chest, or for the steam ; and there are nine