History of merchant shipping and ancient commerce, Volume 4 (of 4) by W. S. Lindsay
CHAPTER VI. 251-291
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Liverpool, New York, and Philadelphia Steamship Company—_City
of Glasgow_, 1850—_City of Manchester_, 1851—Speed of _City of
Paris_ and _City of Brussels_—Exertions of Mr. Inman to improve
and facilitate cheap emigration to the United States—Large number
of emigrants carried in the Inman steamers—_City of Chester_,
1873—_City of Berlin_, 1875—Ocean steamers to Canada, 1853—First
mail contract, 1852—Allan line of steamers, 1856—Extent and capacity
of its fleet—Speed of these vessels—Galway line a failure—Loss
of _Connaught_, 1860—Rapid Passage of _Adriatic_, 1861—Struggles
between sailing-clippers and iron screw-ships—National Steam
Navigation Company, 1863—Their splendid ships—Old Black Ball
line—The Guion line, 1863—Mississippi and Dominion Company—White
Star line, 1870—Strict regulations for safety—_Britannic_ and
_Germanic_—Their great speed—Details of _Britannic_ and form of her
screw—Difficulty of estimating real cost of steamers—Pennsylvania
Company, 1873—Anchor line from the Clyde, 1856—Prodigious range of
their trade operations—The _Victoria_—Hamburg American Steam Packet
Company—North German Lloyd’s
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