APPENDIXES.
APPENDIX A.
TONNAGE OF THE UNITED STATES MERCHANT INE EMPLOYED IN THE
8 RC MARIN
FOREIGN TRADE, THE COASTING TRADE, AND THE FISHERIES, FROM 1789
’
TO 1904,
Foreign
trade.
Coasting | Whale
trade. fisheries.
Jeep-sea
fisheries.
Year ending—
Registered
veosaela
inrolled
and
licensed
vessels.
Registered
and
enrolled
vessels.
Enrolled
and
licensed
vessels.
Total
merchant
marine.
Tons.
201, 562
478,377
502, 146
564, 457
520, 764
628, 618
747,965
331, 900
876,912
898, 328
939,408
972, 492
947,576
892,106
949,172
+, 042,404
1140, 367
208,737
268, 548
£242,595
+, 350, 282
, 424,783
1232, 502
269, 997
166, 628
159, 209
+, 368, 128
1,372,219
., 399,012
1,225,185
1,260,752
', 280, 167
, 298, 958
, 524, 699
336, 566
389,163
423,111
534,191
620, 607
. 741,392
260, 798
L191, 776
,267, 846
., 439, 450
1, 606,161
1,758. 907
a Joseph Nourse, Register of the Treasury, under date of February 1. 1812, stated: ‘As there were not
Any accounts kept at the Treasury of the district tonnage of the United States prior to the operation
of the acts of 31st December, 1792, and 18th February, 1793, the statement in which is exhibited the
‘onnage for the years 1789, 1790, 1791, and 1792 has been formed from the accounts of tonnage on which
luties were collected for those years.” B .
4 The decrease of tounage in this vear arises principally from the registered tonnage having been
corrected by striking off vessels the registers of which were granted prior to 1815, which were supposed
by the collectors to have been lost at sca, captured, ete.—Joseph Nourse, Register of the Treas-Ary
(American State Papers. Vol. II. p. 648)
december 31—
1789...
79a.
la..
xo.
Tons.
123,893
346, 254
363.110
111,438
367,734
138, 863
329, 471
376, 733
397,777
303, 376
357,142
367,107
330, 558
357, 760
385, 910
560, 514
744, 224
798, 507
340, 163
765, 262
06, 855
381,019
763, 607
58, 636
372, 700
374, 633
354, 295
300, 760
804, 851
589, 944
581,230
583, 657
393, 825
582,701
300, 003
336, 807
365, 409
396, 221
01,517
57,998
92, 859
337, 563
529, 136
514, 121
548, 869
749.378
Tons.
88, 607
103. 775
106, 194
120, 957
122,071
162,578 3,126
[84 308 8/163
07,811 2) 364
337,403 1,104
B51 443 763
116, 640 5,647
772,492 3, 466
774, 551 2085
189. 623 3201
299, 060 12390
317. 537 (2 339
342, 663 5,015
340, 540 0) 507
319, 028 9 051
120, 819 4,596
105, 163 3777
105, 347 3580
120, 362 5.299
77.972 230
171,100 2/942
166.159 362
175, 666 1,230
322,165 L168
325, 030 51294
340, 374 6,750
571, 058 32. 886
588,095 3, 445
614, 845 7 905
624,189 7583
517,805 10] 503
641563 33, 346
40’ 861 31379
2330 984
30, 150 J 992
UZ, 906 301
08, 838 7.284
$16, 979 wg
539) 724 82,7
640, 627 73, 246
744/199 | 101,636
“a3 610 | 108 4nd
Tons.
Tons.
9, 062
25,348
32,542
32, 062
30, 959
23,048
30,933
24,962
0,628
2,746
29,979
19,427
™, 582
522
1,812
2,014
/, 466
3,183
0,306
1,998
4,487
34,828
13,234
30,459
19,877
17,855
36,937
48, T2¢
64, 807
59,107
16,078
2, 040
, 202
, 226
°, 257
44
31, 46°
656
939
587
"wy
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