The Hawaiian gazette., 1875-08-11
The Pacific Mail steamship Com.
pany.
From the AuekIand fN. zl uonld.l

From the Auckland IN. ~ Horald)
As this company will shortly enter into
relations with the Australian colonies, at
cost thereto of fs9,95O per year, our
readers viii perhaps feel interested in the
perusal of the following additional particu-
lars of that company's history and resour-
ces, to those we have already supplied:
The Pacific Mail Steamship Company
owns fleet of thirty first-class steamships
of wood aud iron, with an aggregate car
rying capacity of nearly one hundred
thousand tons, and constantly traversing
regular routes whose total length nearly
equals the circumference of the globe, pre-
sent an array of naval statistics of which
several highly respectable second-class ma
tions might well be proud. Among the
latest additions to its fleet of iron steam
ships the City of Peking and the City of
Toxic, in size, model, strength, and speed
surpass anything yet known in the mer-
chant marine service of the world. Iron
propellors four hundred and twenty-three
feet long, forty-eight feet wide, having a
registered tonnage of 5000 tons; passen-
ger accommodation for $50 in the cabin
and 1900 in the steerage, are particulars
which convey to any mind familiar with
nautical matters some partial idea of the
positive grandeur of these monarchs of the
seas. In perfectness Ofproportion, beauty
of model, and strength of construction, the
ship-builder's art has never surpassed,
probably never equaled, these ocean levia-
thans, while in the indispensable point of
speed they easily rival that of the earlier
railway trains. In fact, the terms of the
contract require, and the builders-John
Roach & Sons-bind themselves under a
heavy forfeit, that the ships shall make
fifteen miles an hour at sea. This would
give them daily speed of three hundred
and sixty miles. At this rate the seven
thousand-mile voyage from San Francisco
to Hongkong will occupy less than twenty
days. Besides these ocean monarchs, the |
company have contracted with the same
builders for three more first-class IRON
screw ships for the Pacific trade, each |
of which is to be three hundred and sixty !
two feet long, with carrying capacity of
eight hundred steerage passengers and |
three thousand tons of freight. The
builders contract that these ships shall be
the fastest in the world, having an aver.
age speed of sixteen knots an hour Two
others, of different class, are also to be
added to the line The five ships will
cost over 100000. The company runs
four different lines. The oldest and best
known is the New York and San Francisco
Line, commonly called the Isthmus route.
-Four side-wheel and five iron-screw boats,
of over three thousand tons each, consti-
tute this line ship leaves New York
every other Saturday and San Francisco
Wednesdays, atnoOn. The only
way port at which these ships regularly
ouch is the Mexican port of Acapulco.
It's Central American and Mexican Line
four izon screws, of two thou
iand tons each, and three side-wheelers.
This line makes regular fortnightly trips
between San Francisco and Panama, call
ng at some twenty Mexican and Central
American way ports ship leaves San
at noon every other Thursday.
The Great Japan and China Line, which
night properly be called the Americo-Asi-
tic, or Great Central Trans-Pacifc Line,
larger arc of the earth's cir
umference than any regularly established
cute has ever before attempted, is that
pom which this great company seem now
its chief attention, and
tocking with the largest and finest ships
yer known TO the naval or merchant ma
inc service of the world It has four i'm
lense iron screws of five thousand tons
ach, and four wooden side-wheelers of
early equal size, and FIVE iron screws of
We thousand tons each, now in process of
obstruction and equipment. From this
eet of thirteen magnificent steamships,
nth an aggregate carrying capacity Of