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EXPLANATION OF THE PLATES. 
Extract from the Journal of the St. George Steam Packet Company’s steam ship the Tiger, from 
Hull to Hamburgh. — Draught of water 13 feet 3 inches aft, 11 feet 10 inches forward. 100 tons 
coals ; 15,000 feet measurement goods. 
DEPARTURE. 
TIME. 
WINDS 
H. M. 
July 14. Weighed from Hull Roads... 
9 30 p.m. 
sw. 
15. Passed new Sand Light 
1 5 A.M. 
sw. 
Passed Borkum 
10 0 p.m. 
16. Passed Elbe Light 
3 57 A.M. 
sw. 
Cuxhaven 
5 20 
Arrived at Hamburgh......... 
10 10 Hull 
time. 
Strong wind and rain ;—detained 
by the pilot, going down the 
Humber full an hour. 
Fresh wind and plenty of sea. 
Fine weather. 
Squally, with rain. 
The passage from river to river—Humber to Elbe—was performed in 26 hours 50 minutes : the 
distance run being about 300 miles. The whole passage from Hull Roads to Hamburgh, including 
a delay of an hour in the Humber, was made in thirty-six hours and a half. 
REMARKS. 
FROM HAMBURGH TO HULL. 
DEPARTURE. 
TIME. 
WINDS. 
REMARKS. 
July 22. Started from Hamburgh 
H. M. 
2 40 A.M. 
NW. 
Strong gales and heavy rains. 
Passed Cuxhaven 
8 40 
Continued gales, and heavy rain. 
Light ship 
11 30 
N NW. 
Left the French steamer for 
Havre, wind bound. 
Heligoland NNE 
1 50 p.m. 
23. Anchored in 6 fathoms water 
10 0 p.m. 
N. 
Strong gales and clear.—Thick, 
with heavy rain. 
24. Weighed 
1 0 A.M. 
NE. 
Strong gales and clear. 
Arrived at Hull 
4 0 
The voyage home was performed in 49 hours—three of which at anchor; the weather being so 
bad that the French steamer kept her port, and the first-class steam ships from London to Hull— 
even the Wilberforce—exceeded their average passage by ten hours. 
PLATE CXIL 
THE ADMIRALTY YACHT FIREBRAND. 
We shall have occasion to say but little of this vessel, as her qualifications are 
comprehended in what has been already said of the Medea. The Firebrand is on the