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strides effected during tlie last forty years, what may we not anticipate a few 

 years hence ? When the first trials were made ordinary land-engines were 

 applied ; now we have the most compact engine imaginable : then paddles 

 were the only system of propulsion ; now the screw in a variety of forms 

 is rapidly taking the lead : formerly we had only wooden boats, now iron 

 ones. Thus year after year we are advancing and improving. I think it 

 probable that the time is not very far distant when steam-boats, of one 

 descrption or other, will almost if not entirely supersede sailing vessels. 



Tables of Statistics. 



The following tables show the present position of Hull in regard to the 

 steamers which belong to, or trade from the Port : — 



(A.) Sea-going steamers belonging to the port. Total tonnage, 9277 ; horse- 

 power, 2799 ; averaging 3'31 tons per horse-power. 



(B.) River steamers belonging to the port. Total tonnage, 2218 ; horse- 

 power, 1135; averaging 1'71 ton per horse-power. 



(C.) Sea-going steamers belonging to other ports, but trading to Hull. 

 Total tonnage, 5909 ; horse-power, 2236 ; averaging 2'61 tons per 

 horse-power. 



(D.) River steamers trading to Hull, but belonging to other places. Total 

 tonnage, 1156; horse-power, 426; averaging 2*71 tons per horse- 

 power. 



(E.) An account showing the progressive increase or decrease of tonnage 

 on steam-vessels, foreign or coastwise respectively, from 1840 to 

 1852 inclusive. 



The total number of steamers trading to Hull amounts to eighty- one, 

 of the aggregate burthen of 18,560 tons, and 6596 horse-power ; averaging 

 on the whole 2'81 tons per horse-power ; giving also an average on the total 

 number of steamers of 229*38 tons each. 



Note. — 66 paddle-steamers and 15 screw steamers = 81. 

 Hull, 7th September 1853. 



1853. 



