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Posted: 30 Dec 2022

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Launch of the Sea Steamer GREAT REPUBLIC, Harpers Weekly, November 24, 1866 (Author’s collection)

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The new China steamers cost, on average, one million dollars each. They were 4,000 gross tons in weight, 360 feet long, with a 49- to 50-foot beam drawing 23 feet of water. The ships were built between 1865-1868 at the Canal Street and Greenpoint Yards near Brooklyn, Long Island, New York, by shipbuilders William Henry Webb and Henry steers. They were coal fired, consuming, on average, 40 to 45 tons of coal per day. . . . .

More than 100,000 Chinese emigrants would make the voyage as steerage passengers. As such, they were berthed well forward on the ship’s lifeboats, deep in the hull in steerage, in numbers that could exceed 1,200 such travelers on a single vessel. ~ Page 13

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