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From: "Lina Moffitt" <>
Subject: [TSL] The Colonial Magazine and Commercial Maritime Journal
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2003 17:37:21 +1000


Vol 1, Number 1 (January 1840)
courtesy of the National Library of Australia:

The New York line-of-packet ship Philadelphia, Capt E.E. Morgan arrived Nov 26th at Portsmouth, from NY, having on board Joseph Buonaparte and suite. This is the third time he has crossed the Atlantic in the same ship.

ARRIVAL OF SIR JOHN COLBORNE - Plymouth -Nov 18 - Her Majesty's frigate Pique arrived here yesterday, after a passage of 25 days, from Quebec. Sir John and Lady Colborne landed immediately. They are apparently in good health, and intend residing in this neighbourhood, having taken Lyneham, the property of Mr J G Bultee. No intelligence of consequence has transpired at Quebec between the time of the proclamation of the new governor, Mr G P Thomson, and the period of the departure of the Pique. The frigate is gone to Portsmouth.

Limerick Chronicle - Lieut-Colonel Lord Charles Wellesley, 15th regt, son of the Duke of Wellington; Lieut-Col Whyte, 7th Hussars; and Capt Fox, all attached to the British armyin Ganadas, are now in Baltimore on a tour through the country.

The GREAT WESTERN arrived at Briston on 30th Nov after a passage of thirteen days and a half, the weather being very squally the whole of the time.She brought 34 passengers amongst whom was Sir Lionel Smith, late Governor of Jamaica.

THE PRESIDENT STEAM SHIP - On 9th December, at half-past three o'clock, this magnificent steam ship was floated out (not launched) from the dock where she was built at Messrs Curling and Young's, ship builders, at Limehouse, into the Thames, amidst the cheers of many thousands of spectators. The tide was not sufficiently high on Saturday to float her, and great was the disappointment to the people assembled; but since that time a great quantity of ballast has been taken out of her, and yesterday, half an hour before high water, she was towed out of the dock by three Greenwich steamers, and proceeded down the river to Black wall where she was safely moored. She will remain in her present situation for a few weeks, when she will proceed to Liverpool to take in her engines and machinery.

The comparative dimensions of this vessel and of the British Queen are thus:-

British
Queen President
Ft in Ft in
Length extreme from
figure head to taf-frail 275 0 268 0
Ditto on upper deck 245 0 243 0
Ditto on main deck - - 224 0
Ditto of keel 223 0 320 0
Breadth within
paddle boxes 40 0 41 0
Ditto over bends 40 4 41 4
Ditto over all 64 0 68 0
depth 27 0 - -
Ditto from spar deck - - 32 9
Ditto from main deck - - 23 6
Tonnage 20iEtons 2366 tons
power of engines 500 Hors 600 Hors
Diameter of cylinders 77.5 in 80 in
Length of stroke 7 ft 7 ft 6 in
Diameter of paddlewheels 31ft 30 ft



Lina Moffitt

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