Note 351 — Chapter X
Reading edition
In the case of the Cunard line the average has been calculated upon a parliamentary return extending from January 1862 to April 1866, as is also the return of the average speed of the vessels of the Peninsular and Oriental Company during the same period.
Cunard Company.
Liverpool and Boston Line. Knots. Fath.
109 voyages outwards, average speed 9 2
112 voyages homewards, average speed 10 2
Liverpool and New York Line.
109 voyages outwards, average speed 11 1
113 voyages homewards, average speed 11 7
Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company.
Knots. Fath.
On the Australian Line 9 7
On the Calcutta and Suez Line 9 7
On the Bombay and Suez Line 9 2
On the Southampton and Alexandria and Marseilles and Alexandria Lines 10 0
The following averages are taken respectively from the reports published in 1865 of the British Royal Mail (West India) Company, and of the French Messageries Maritimes Company:
Knots. Fath.
Between Southampton and West Indies 10 5
Between Southampton and Brazils 9 5
The French Company give an average speed on their line to India of 9 knots 4 fathoms per hour for the years 1863 and 1864, but add “it is, for a general average, rather high.”