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Her Majesty's Mails
·
William Lewins
233
"The
arrangements
for
expressing
the
American
mails
throughout
from
Queenstown
to
London,
which
we
described
as
being
so
successfully
executed
with
the
mails
brought
by
the
Africa
last
week,
have
been
repeated
with
still
more
satisfactory
results
in
the
case
of
the
mails
brought
by
the
Europa.
These
results
are
so
exceptional
that
we
record
them
in
detail.
The
Europa
arrived
off
Queenstown,
about
five
miles
from
the
pier,
at
9
P.M.
on
Monday
night.
Her
mails
and
the
despatches
from
Lord
Lyons
were
placed
on
board
the
small
tender
in
waiting,
and
arrived
at
the
Queenstown
Pier
at
10.5
P.M.,
at
which
point
they
were
transferred
to
an
express
steamboat
for
conveyance
by
river
to
Cork.
Leaving
Queenstown
Pier
at
10.10
P.M.,
they
arrived
alongside
the
quay
at
Cork
at
11.15
P.M.
and
thirteen
minutes
afterwards
the
special
train
left
the
Cork
station
for
Dublin,
accomplishing
the
journey
to
Dublin
(166
miles)
in
four
hours
and
three
minutes,
i.
e.
at
a
speed
of
about
41
miles
an
hour,
including
stoppage.
The
transmission
through
the
streets
between
the
railway
termini
in
Dublin
and
by
special
train
to
Kingstown
occupied
only
thirty-six
minutes,
and
in
four
minutes
more
the
special
mail-boat
Ulster
was
on
her
way
to
Holyhead.
The
distance
across
the
Irish
Channel,
about
sixty-six
statute
miles,
was
performed
by
the
Ulster,
against
a
contrary
tide
and
heavy
sea,
in
three
hours
and
forty-seven
minutes,
giving
a
speed
of
about
seventeen
and
a
half
miles
an
hour.
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