Falmouth packet station.

Notes:

31 Jul 1841 Captain John Foote appointed to be Superintendent of Packets at Falmouth, vice Plumridge.

7 Aug 1841 Captain Alexander Ellice, appointed to the Falmouth packet station.

10 Sep 1842 it was reported in the Plymouth Times that the Admiralty had informed the Plymouth Packet Station committee that the stations for the arrival and departure of the West Indian and other mails will continue as at present, at Falmouth, for a further 6 months, after which time the claims of Plymouth and other ports will be taken into consideration. [It is perhaps interesting to note that around this period various mentions were being made in local newspapers that the mail from abroad being landed at Falmouth for the Admiralty in London etc., could have arrived in London much earlier if these vessels, usually steam, could have landed the mail at ports further up the English Channel which were connected to London by the railway, such as Portsmouth, where, if the mail and dispatches had been put on the next train from Gosport for London, it would, it was often claimed, have arrived London much sooner than the mail dropped off at Falmouth, a part of a campaign by several South Coast ports attempting to boost trade and business by attracting the packets ie at this date it would be another 20 years or more before the railways arrived at Falmouth, ie 1863 per Wiki., by which time I gather the packets were long gone, and FWIW the undersea telegraph was being connected at Dover to Europe in the 1850s and just down the coast at Porthcurno, Cornwall, to the colonies etc., such as India in 1870.]