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and 65,000 pounds for a monthly Cork-Halifax-New York service. Great
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412:, Ireland on 4 April and arrived in New York after a voyage of 18 days, 4 hours and 22 minutes (8.03) knots. The normal westbound passage by sailing packet was 40 days. When coal ran low, the crew were alleged by the newspapers to have been forced to burn cabin furniture, spare
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for new boilers, but remained there over two years as the dry dock had to be specially lengthened. In the face of financial difficulties, the St George company was refinanced in 1844 and took the style City of Cork Steam Ship
Company, with which
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that enabled her to use fresh water, avoiding the need to periodically shut down her boilers at sea for cleaning. Unfortunately, this also resulted in high coal consumption.
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was clearly too small for the Cork-New York crossing, she completed only one additional round trip before she was returned to her owners and, after a voyage to
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continued without interruption and she was ready for her first voyage by April 1838. One of
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was wrecked in 1847. On 16 January, on a voyage to Cork from
Glasgow via Dublin with cargo and passengers, she struck rocks in dense fog in
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built by Wingate & Co. driving two paddlewheels. Her
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was 178 feet 4 inches (54.4 m) long from
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and still came within a day of overtaking her. Because
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346:(370 kW) and the ship had a maximum speed of 12
270:, Scotland for the London-Cork route operated by the
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