Thanks
to the fact that nowadays more and more books are digitized we are able to read
books that are some times for decades no longer available for the public for
several reasons. That’s quite a pity while these books contains useful
information while the archives are destroyed, incomplete or nor accessible.
p.
146. “The mercantile marine of Chili numbers altogether one hundred and four
vessels, forty five of which are engaged in foreign trade, one in the whale
fishery, and the remainder in the coasting trade. Thirty-five vessels are of
national construction ; two over two hundred tons, aggregate tonnage five
hundred and two tons; twelve over one hundred tons, aggregate tonnage one
thousand four hundred and sixty-six tons; twenty-one under one hundred tons,
aggregate one thousand one hundred and ninety-seven tons. Total tonnage of
national construction, three thousand one hundred and sixty-five tons. Of
naturalized vessels there were eight, varying about three hundred tons,
aggregate two thousand seven hundred and three tons ; twenty-one over two
hundred tons, making an aggregate of five thousand two hundred and eighty-eight
tons ; thirty-four over one hundred tons, forming an aggregate of five thousand
two hundred and eighty-eight; and six of less than one hundred tons, making an
aggregate of five hundred and twenty-six tons. The aggregate naturalized
tonnage is thirteen thousand eight hundred and five tons, which added to the
three thousand one hundred and sixty-five of national tonnage, gives us sixteen
thousand nine hundred and seventy tons for the mercantile tonnage of Chili at
the close of the year 1848.(1) Of the foreign bottoms naturalized in Chili,
thirty-two were built in the United States and nine in England. The remaining
twenty-seven are divided between France, Hamburgh, Denmark, Austria, Brazil,
and the East Indies.”
Original
footnote (1): “Owing to the extensive trade in flour recently opened between
Chili and California, their tonnage has doubtless increased considerably. 1851.”
Source
Lieutenant
Isaac G. Strain, U.S.N. Cordillera and pampa, Mountain and plain, Sketches
of a journey in Chile, and the Argentine provinces, in 1849. New York,
1853.
