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Putting the Mail on Board the "Viceroy", 1850. Mail sacks being loaded at Galway in Ireland, to be carried across the Atlantic Ocean. 'At twenty minutes past six the express [train] arrived from Dublin, with a considerable mail, and was handed over to the coast-guard boat...'. The sacks were '...towed off towards the ship amidst the acclamations of thousands, and [were] then handed over to the captain, who instantly put his men to the capstan, and at a quarter to ten o'clock the Viceroy was fairly under weigh, amidst the prolonged cheering of the multitudes assembled upon every available point from which a glimpse of her could be caught...One thing is certain, and that is - Captain Ewing and his crew will leave nothing undone that rests within their power to render the voyage successful...'. From "Illustrated London News", 1850.