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12 years Iron Steamer was being built at Hayle, by Harvey and Co, capable of carrying 200 Tons of Cargo, with ample accommodation for passengers. The cost of this new steamer was £18,000 (equivalent to $ 2,288,148 in 2023), and in 1858, the company launched the Cornubia. The company also planned
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launched a prospectus in 1857 to attract capital investment. The secretary of the new company was Mr John Vivian of Hayle. The company was launched with nominal capital of £28,750 (equivalent to $ 3,464,332 in 2023) and working capital of £23,000 (equivalent to $ 2,923,744 in 2023). The
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following a meeting of the shareholders on 6 November 1861. Steamer services continued, and attempted competition with screw vessels. Having sold off the
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The additional traffic was short-lived, as the extension of railway services from London and Bristol through into Cornwall was completed when the
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Both Hayle and Bristol Steam Packet Companies amalgamated around 1860, probably as a result of traffic diminishing. The company undertook
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of 1865. However, the two ships could not compete with rail travel for both passengers and freight, and were moved to other trades.
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was added to the Hayle service under the command of John Vivian. The extra business attracted a rival when Vivian Stevens of
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in the mid nineteenth century. Confusingly from 1848 to 1860, the company name was used by two separate operators.
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arrived in Bristol, this stimulated more travel between London and the South West of England, and the PS
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Although a steamer first called at Hayle in 1824, regular weekly services began in 1831, when the
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to sell the Cornwall for £2,000 (equivalent to $ 254,239 in 2023) when the
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The Hayle to Bristol services reduced and were operated by
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in 1848, and confusingly Vivian Stevens with the PS
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Index

Hayle
Hayle
Bristol
Ilfracombe
Hayle
Ilfracombe
Bristol
Harvey's of Hayle
Great Western Railway
St Ives
First Class A.1.
SS Cornubia
Royal Albert Bridge
voluntary liquidation
SS Cornubia
Liverpool
Cornwall portal
"Cornish Steam Ships and Owners:the View from England"
the original
"Prospectus. Hayle and Bristol Steam Pcket Company (Limited)"
British Newspaper Archive




Retail Price Index
"The Annual RPI and Average Earnings for Britain, 1209 to Present (New Series)"
MeasuringWorth
"No. 22565"
The London Gazette

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