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New York

1755 - 1840     Wars interrupted N. Atlantic services to New York

          See Bermuda

SM 23/11/1778: London Nov. 19.  Orders are given for two packets for the New York station to be built as soon as possible in the room of [Harriot & Eagle] those taken by the Americans; they are to carry 20 guns each, besides swivels, and 80 men, exclusive of officers, etc.

FP 2/7/1842 RMS Packet Company to give up Halifax & New York - due to needing 11 instead of 14 steamers and having their application for a further £60,000 p.a. turned down by the Treasury

===================                Reference reading........

The Postage Rates of the North Atlantic Mails (1635-1950)

The Inland and Ocean Postage Rates Applied to Letters Between the UK and North America, by, and published by Malcolm Beresford MONTGOMERY MBE (1991)

ISBN  0 95 18335 0 2                [ 26 Cambridge Road, Southampton, SO2 0RD ]