Transcriber’s Notes
Inconsistencies in spelling, hyphenation, formatting, etc. have been retained, except as mentioned below. French and German accents have not been changed or added unless listed below. The inconsistent and unusual use of units (knots for both distance and speed, yards for both length and area, etc.) is as in the source document.
List of Illustrations: numbers 128 (Cartagena Dock) and 129 (Baikal) are in reverse order in the list compared to the text. This has not been rectified so as to not mix up the photo credits. Some other discrepancies between the list and the captions have been rectified, as mentioned below.
Page 147, table: the contradicting units (feet, inches) are as printed in the source document.
Page 229, ... the ‘three grand requirements (of marine engines): the closing quote mark is lacking.
Page 361 (and Index), ... the powerful Dutch tugs Roodezee and Zwartezee ...: they were called the Roode Zee and the Zwarte Zee.
Changes made
Footnotes and illustrations have been moved out of text paragraphs; some ditto signs have been replaced with the dittoed text. Page references under illustration giving the page number opposite which the illustration was printed have been deleted.
Some obvious minor typographical and punctuation errors have been corrected silently.
List of Illustrations: illustration numbers have been added. Illustrations numbers 33 (originally Kingfisher) and 34 (originally Carron) interchanged cf. the order of the illustrations in the text; ditto for numbers 44 (Cambria) and 45 (Marylebone), numbers 51 (Dieppe) and 52 (United Kingdom), and numbers 94 (Campania) and 95 (Mauretania).
Perier and Périer have been standardised to Périer.
Page 65: ... to bring up in Ramsay Bay ... has been changed to ... to bring up in Ramsey Bay ....
Page 86: ſatisfying has been changed to ſatiſfying.
Page 118: Konisberg has been changed to Königsberg.
Page 187: Miller and Ravenhall has been changed to Miller and Ravenhill.
Page 320: Dupuy de Lome has been changed to Dupuy de Lôme.
Index entries changed to conform to the text: Belier to Bélier; Bernouilli to Bernoulli; Browne, Charles to Brownne, Charles; Cambia (Cunard Co.) and Cambia (L. & N.W.R.) to Cambria (Cunard Co.) and Cambria (L. & N.W.R.) (ships); Chipping Camden to Chipping Campden (entry Freeman, Mr.); Dupuy de Lome to Dupuy de Lôme; Fire-brand to Firebrand (ship); Grayson & Leadly to Grayson & Leadley; Humbolt to Humboldt (ship); Jorden, J., & Co. to Jordan, J., & Co.; Jouffrey d’Abbans to Jouffroy d’Abbans; Jumma to Jumna (ship); Liffy to Liffey (ship); Maudsley, Sons & Field to Maudslay, Sons & Field; Morisot’s “Orbis Maritimi,” to Morisotus’ “Orbis Maritimi,”; Munroe, President to Monroe, President (also moved to proper place); Prince Regent Luitpold to Prinz Regent Luitpold (ship); Rubic and Blaker to Rubie and Blaker; James Rumsey to James Rumsay (entry Moray, John); Salamon de Caus to Salomon de Caus (entry Steam-engines); Sans Pariel to Sans Pareil (ship); Shaw, Savil & Albion Co. to Shaw, Savill & Albion Co.; Winan’s cigar ship to Winans’ cigar ship.