“Sirius,” 1837.
“Great Britain,” 1843.
“City of Glasgow,” 1850.
“Great Eastern,” 1857.
“Scotia,” 1861.
“Columba,” 1878.
“Arizona,” 1876.
“Servia,” 1881.
“City of Rome,” 1881.
Along with the change or evolution in the sizes and types of merchant vessels, important modifications in their structural arrangement have of late years been effected, and it is to the constant progress being made in these matters—to the skill and intrepidity which are brought to bear on their execution, and to the readiness with which our shipowners recognise their importance and value—that the maintenance of our mercantile supremacy is largely owing. An American journal, writing a few years ago on this subject—perhaps with more of taunt for the conceit and self-sufficiency evinced by its own country than of adulation for the ability and enterprise displayed by ours—said:—