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The New Ship "City of Mobile", 1856. 'This noble merchantman has just arrived in the East India Docks, Blackwall [on the Thames in London], from the United States, with the largest cargo of wheat that has ever left the shores of America, or ever entered this or any other port in the world - the quantity brought being about 9000 quarters...[she was] built at New York, for the house of Horbeck and Co...she is of 1750 tons register burden, and is built throughout with oak...with three decks for cargo, and with passenger accommodation on the upper deck. She is rigged in the newest American style, with double or rather divided topsails, known in the nautical world as Hodge's system...The main and fore yards are eighty feet in length...her enormous canvas has been manufactured by the Messrs. Speller and Co., of Wapping. Her length over all is 225 feet...She is commanded by Captain Marshall...'. From "Illustrated London News", 1856.