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GREAT DTUTAIN AND IRELAND.
The number of steamers employed alternately in home and foreign trade, during the years 1856 to 1869, amounted to: —
Partly Homo and
partly
Steam Vessels
Foreign Trade
Years
Number
Tons
Men
18.56
42
16,102
965
1857
66
20,859
1,200
1858
62
20,604
1,141
1859
59
21.123
1,202
1860
80
29,803
1.731
1861
72
24,924
1,255
1862
89
29,463
1,664
1863
90
33,547
1,693
1864
92
36,944
1,787
1865
111
43,225
2,005
1866
110
47,194
2,050
1867
125
50,201
2,249
1868
134
52,150
2,339
1869
164
73,964
3,048
The number and tonnage of registered sailing vessels engaged in the foreign trade alone, with the men employed — exclusive of masters — was as follows during the fourteen years 1856 to 1869 : —
Employed in the
Failing Vessels
Foreign Trade
Years
Number
Tons
Men
1856
8,059
2,942,674
110,718 |
1857
7.655
2,900,082
107,289 1
1858
7,999
3.029,226
109,090 j
1859
7,792
2,969,402
105,434
1860
6,876
2.804.610
'J7.024 !
1861
6,902
2,866,21S
96,880. j
1862
7,095
2,993,696
100.145
1863
7,360
3,246,526
106,100
1864
7,557
3,532,242
110,489
1865
7,384
3,629,023
110,501
1866
7,454
3,612,973
109,073
1867
7,467
3,641,662
107,364
1868
7,306
3,646,150
105.7111
1S69
6,9fi3
3,611,743
102,110
