THE LOG OF THE SAVANNAH. 



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The following table shows the number of hours the engines were at 

 work during the voyage from Savannah to Liverpool. 



Got steam up. 



Shut steam oft". 



Hours. 



May 30, 8 a. m 



June 1, 8 a. m 



May 30, 6 p. m 



10 

 18 

 16 

 4 

 14 

 18 



80 



June 6, 12 p. ni 



June 9, 12 m .. 





June 11, 10 a. m 



June 16, 8 p. m 



June 11, 12 p. m 



June'l7, 2 p. ra 



Marwade's " English Commercial Report,'* June 22, 1819, thus records 

 the arrival of the Savannah at Liverpool : 



Among the arrivals yesterday at this port we were particularly gratified and aston- 

 ished by the novel sight of a tine steamship which came around at 7:30 p. in. without 

 the assistance of a single sheet, iu a style which displayed the power and advautage 

 of the application of steam to vessels of the largest size, being 350 tons burden. She 

 is called the Savannah, Captain Rogers, and sailed from Savannah (Georgia, United 

 States), the 2fith of May and arrived in the channel five days siuce. During her 

 passage she worked the engine 18 days. Her model is beautiful and the accommoda- 

 tions for passengers elegant and complete. She is the first ship on this construction 

 that has undertaken a voyage across the Atlantic. 



The following is a communication from the American minister at Lon- 

 don to Hon. John Quincy Adams, the Secretary of State: 



[Official dispatch No. 76. From the U. S. Minister Richard Rush to the Department of State. J 



London, July 3, 1819. 



Sir: Ou the 20th of last month arrived at Liverpool from the United States the 

 steamer Savannah, Captain Rogers, being the first vessel of this description that has 

 ever crossed the seas, and having excited equal admiration and astonishment as she 

 entered the port under the power of her steam. 



She is a fine ship, of 320 tons burden, and exhibits in her construction no less than 

 she has done in her navigation across the Atlantic, a signal triumph of American 

 enterprise and skill upon the ocean. 



Lloyd's List reports the arrival of the Savannah at Liverpool on the 

 20th of June, 1819, bound to St. Petersburg; and in "Gore's Aunals 

 of Liverpool" this American steamer's arrival is recorded among ' ; re- 

 markable events." 



Nile's New York Register, August 21, contains this paragraph : 



The steamship Savannah, Capt. Moses Rogers, the first that ever crossed the Atlan- 

 tic, arrived at Liverpool in 25 days from Savannah, ail well, to the great astonishment 

 of the people at that place. She worked her engine 18 days. 



A correspondent of the Charlotte City "Gazette" writes from Norfolk, 

 August 10, 1819 : 



I have received no shipping list by this arrival, but an article of great importance 

 in the steam world (if I may use the expression) is contained in the Cork paper of 

 the 19th of June. It is no less than the arrival at Kinsale, in 21 days, of the steam- 



