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| The “Olympic”[Frontispiece] |
| Hero’s Steam Apparatus | [18] |
| Jonathan Hulls’ Steam Tug Boat | [30] |
| The Marquis de Jouffroy’s Steamboat | [40] |
| Patrick Miller’s Double-hulled Paddle-boat | [42] |
| Symington’s First Marine Engine | [42] |
| Outline of Fitch’s First Boat | [45] |
| The “Charlotte Dundas” | [46] |
| The “Clermont” in 1807 | [46] |
| Fulton’s design for a Steamboat submitted to the Commission appointed by Napoleon in 1803 | [51] |
| Fulton’s First Plans for Steam Navigation | [57] |
| Fulton’s design of Original Apparatus for determining the Resistance of Paddles for the propulsion of the “Clermont,” dated 1806 | [64] |
| The Reconstructed “Clermont” at the Hudson-Fulton Celebrations, 1909 | [70] |
| Paddle-wheel of the Reconstructed “Clermont” | [70] |
| Fulton’s Preliminary Study for the Engine of the “Clermont” | [75] |
| Fulton’s plans of a later Steamboat than the “Clermont-North-River,” showing application of the square side connecting rod Engine | [77] |
| The “Comet” | [78] |
| Engine of the “Comet” | [78] |
| S.S. “Elizabeth” (1815) | [84] |
| Russian Passenger Steamer (1817) | [84] |
| The “Prinzessin Charlotte” (1816) | [90] |
| The “Savannah” (1819) | [90] |
| The “James Watt” (1821) | [94] |
| Side-Lever Engines of the “Ruby” (1836) | [94] |
| The “Sirius” (1838) | [96] |
| The “Royal William” (1838) | [96] |
| The “Great Western” (1838) | [100] |
| Paddle-wheel of the “Great Western” | [100] |
| The “British Queen” (1839) | [102] |
| The “Britannia,” the First Atlantic Liner (1840) | [102] |
| The “Teviot” and “Clyde” (1841) | [110] |
| Side-lever Engine | [110] |
| Launch of the “Forth” (1841) | [112] |
| The “William Fawcett” and H.M.S. “Queen” (1829) | [112] |
| Designs for Screw Propellers prior to 1850 | [118] |
| The “Robert F. Stockton” (1838) | [120] |
| The “Archimedes” (1839) | [120] |
| Stern of the “Archimedes” | [122] |
| The “Novelty” (1839) | [122] |
| The “Great Britain” (1843) | [126] |
| Propeller of the “Great Britain” | [126] |
| Engines of the “Great Britain” | [128] |
| Engines of the “Helen McGregor” | [128] |
| The “Scotia” (1862) | [130] |
| The “Pacific” (1853) | [130] |
| Maudslay’s Oscillating Engine. | [132] |
| Engines of the “Candia” | [132] |
| The “Victoria” (1852) | [134] |
| The “Himalaya” (1853) | [134] |
| Coasting Cargo Steamer (1855) | [134] |
| The “Great Eastern” (1858) | [138] |
| Paddle Engines of the “Great Eastern” | [140] |
| Screw Engines of the “Great Eastern” | [140] |
| The “City of Paris” (1866) | [148] |
| The “Russia” (1867) | [148] |
| The “Oceanic” (1870) | [152] |
| The “Britannic” (1874) | [154] |
| The “Servia” (1881) | [154] |
| The “Umbria” (1884) | [158] |
| The “Orient” (1879) | [158] |
| The “Austral” (1881) | [162] |
| The “Victoria” (1887) | [162] |
| The “Majestic” (1889) | [162] |
| The “City of Paris” (1893) (now the “Philadelphia”) | [166] |
| The “Ophir” (1891) | [166] |
| The “Lucania” (1893) | [170] |
| The “Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse” (1897) | [174] |
| The “Oceanic” (1899) | [176] |
| The “Cedric” | [176] |
| The “Celtic” | [178] |
| The “Kaiser Wilhelm II.” | [180] |
| Giovanni Branca’s Steam Engine (1629) | [184] |
| The Blades of a Parsons Turbine | [185] |
| The Parsons Turbine | [186] |
| The “Carmania” (1905) | [188] |
| Lower half of the fixed portion of one of the “Carmania’s” Turbines | [188] |
| A Study in Comparisons: the “Magnetic” and “Baltic” | [192] |
| The “Mauretania” when completing at Wallsend-on-Tyne | [198] |
| Stern of the “Mauretania” | [200] |
| The “Lusitania” | [202] |
| The “Adriatic” | [206] |
| The “George Washington” | [208] |
| The “Berlin” | [208] |
| The “Laurentic” on the Stocks | [210] |
| The “Mooltan” | [216] |
| The Starting Platform in the Engine Room of the “Mooltan” | [218] |
| The “Balmoral Castle” | [220] |
| The “Cambria” (1848) | [222] |
| Engines of the “Leinster” (1860) | [222] |
| The “Atalanta” (1841) | [226] |
| The “Lyons” (1856) | [226] |
| The “Empress” leaving Dover Harbour | [226] |
| The Ocean Tug “Blackcock” | [234] |
| The Passenger Tender “Sir Francis Drake” | [234] |
| The 7,000 ton Floating Dry-dock under tow by the “Roode Zee” and “Zwarte Zee” | [236] |
| The Salvage Tug “Admiral de Ruyter” | [238] |
| The New York Harbour and River Tug Boat “Edmund Moran” | [238] |
| The Paddle-Tug “Dromedary” | [240] |
| The Bucket Dredger “Peluse” | [240] |
| The Suction Dredger “Leviathan” | [242] |
| The “Vigilant” | [242] |
| The Telegraph Steamer “Monarch” | [244] |
| Deck View of the Telegraph Ship “Faraday” | [244] |
| The “Silverlip” | [246] |
| Section of Modern Oil-tank Steamer | [246] |
| The Turret-ship “Inland” | [248] |
| Midship Section of a Turret-ship | [248] |
| Cantilever Framed Ship | [250] |
| The North Sea Trawler “Orontes” | [252] |
| The Steam Trawler “Notre Dame des Dunes” | [252] |
| Hydraulic Lifeboat | [255] |
| A Screw Lifeboat | [257] |
| The “Inez Clarke” | [258] |
| The “Natchez” and the “Eclipse” (1855) | [258] |
| The “Empire” | [258] |
| The “Commonwealth” | [262] |
| Beam Engine of an American River Steamer | [262] |
| The “City of Cleveland” | [264] |
| An American “Whale-back” Steamer | [264] |
| Typical Steam Yacht of about 1890 | [271] |
| A Steam Yacht of To-day | [275] |
| The Russian Imperial Yacht “Livadia” | [276] |
| The Royal Yacht “Victoria and Albert” | [278] |
| The Royal Yacht “Alexandra” | [278] |
| The S.Y. “Sagitta” | [280] |
| The S.Y. “Triad” | [280] |
| “Flush-decked” Type | [283] |
| “Three Island” Type | [283] |
| “Top-gallant Forecastle” Type | [284] |
| “Top-gallant Forecastle” Type, with raised quarter-deck | [284] |
| Early “Well-deck” Type | [284] |
| “Well-deck” Type | [285] |
| “Spar-deck” Type | [285] |
| “Awning-deck” Type | [286] |
| “Shade-deck” Type | [286] |
| The Building of the “Mauretania” (showing floor and part of frames) | [286] |
| The “George Washington” in course of Construction | [288] |
| Bows of the “Berlin” in course of Construction | [290] |
| The “Berlin” just before her Launch | [290] |
| Stern frame of the “Titanic,” February 9, 1910 | [292] |
| The Shelter Deck of the “Orsova” in course of Construction | [292a] |
| One of the Decks of the “Lusitania” in course of Construction | [292a] |
| Launch of the “Araguaya” | [294] |
| Launch of a Turret-Ship | [294] |
| The “Suevic” ashore off the Lizard | [296] |
| The Stern Part of the “Suevic” awaiting the New Bow at Southampton | [296a] |
| The New Bow of the “Suevic” at entrance to Dock | [296a] |
| Charles Dickens’s State-room on the “Britannia” | [298] |
| The Veranda Café of the “Lusitania” | [300] |
| First Class Dining Saloon of the “Adriatic” | [300] |
| Dining Saloon of the S.Y. “Liberty” | [302] |
| Gymnasium of the S.Y. “Liberty” | [302] |
| The Marconi Room on a Cunard Liner | [306] |