The expenses of a blockade runner.
Enclosed please find a statement of the expense of running a steamer before the war on a basts, also the same for a blockade running steamer on the same grounds. You will perceive that all the reports of the blockade running are without foundation, as it is a well known fact that ovary steamer or blockade runner have made large for tunes, and have turned our currency, and taken all the coin out of the country. I sincerely trust Congress will not after the present few, but make it stronger, and put a heavy tax on them.
Yours truly,
An Old Sailor
An Old Sailor
one captain per month | $150 00 |
one clerk per month | 100 00 |
one first officer | 75 00 |
one second officer | 60 00 |
one third officer | 45 00 |
one boatswain | 40 00 |
one carpenter | 60 00 |
one steward and three assistants | 100 00 |
one cook and two assistants | 90 00 |
one engineer and three assistants | 250 00 |
twelve firemen and could plasters | 600 00 |
twelve dock hands | 360 00 |
240 tons of coal, of $4 | 200 00 |
Oil, tailors, packing, & | 100 00 |
Sleevedores out and home | 2000 00 |
Whirlage and boatage | 400 00 |
Pitotage cut and in | 256 00 |
Insurance 2 ½ per cent per month on $150 000 | 3750 00 |
Wear and tear 2 ¾ per of per month | 4250 00 |
Incidental expenses | 1000 00 |
interest | 575 00 |
for crew | 405 00 |
rations for passengers | 3000 00 |
19136 00 |
freight out end home, four trips | 14890 00 |
passengers | 33000 00 |
52800 00 | |
Profits made per month, previous to the war, by a first class steamer on a specie currency | $33664 00 |
one captain per month | $5000 00 |
First officer, $600; second do, $250; third do, $16 | 1020 00 |
one boats wals | 160 00 |
one carpenter | 160 00 |
one purser | 1000 00 |
one steward $150; three assistants, $180 | 330 00 |
one cook, $150; two assistants, $120 | 270 00 |
one engineer and three assistants | 3500 00 |
twelve dremen and coal heavers | 2400 00 |
24 of coal at $20 | 400 00 |
rations for crow | 2700 00 |
tallow and packing | 1000 00 |
Sleevedores | 5000 00 |
Pilotage out and in | 3000 00 |
Sea Insurance | 3500 00 |
Wear and tear | 4250 00 |
Incidental expenses | 1200 00 |
interest | 875 00 |
Risks, 25 per cent | 37500 00 |
provisions for passengers | 300 00 |
60265 00 |
800 bales of cotton for Government | 40000 00 |
800 bales of cotton for owners. | 40000 00 |
Return freight for owners | 40000 00 |
Return freight for Government | 40000 00 |
Passengers out and home | 12000 00 |
172000 00 | |
Leaving a monthly profit (and if successful in five trips Ill clear the steamer) of | $21735 00 |