History of Merchant Shipping and Ancient Commerce, Volume 4

Admiralty afterwards American Atlantic average speed beam boat boilers Bombay Boulton and Watt Britain British built Calcutta Cape Captain cargo carry Charlotte Dundas China Clyde coal coast Collins line commerce constructed contract conveyance Cunard Company Cunard line cylinder deck despatched diameter dimensions directors East India Eastern employed engines England Euphrates experiment feet in length fleet floats Fulton Glasgow Government Greenock Hankow horse-power hull inches increased invention iron ships iron vessels James Watt knots an hour lakes launched less line of steamers Liverpool London machinery mail service Marine Propulsion maritime ment Messrs mode ocean Oriental Company Pacific packets paddle paddle-wheel passage passengers patent Peninsular and Oriental performed ports propelled propulsion Red Sea river River Clyde route Royal Royal Mail sailing sailing-ships sailing-vessels screw screw-propeller shipowners Steam Navigation Company steam-boat steam-engine steam-ships steam-vessels success Suez Canal tion tonnage trade undertaking voyage Watt wheels Woodcroft York