WITH NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS.
PUBLISHED BY
CHARLES BIRCHALL, LIMITED,
7 & 9, VICTORIA STREET, LIVERPOOL.
1903.
C. TINLING AND CO.,
PRINTERS,
VICTORIA STREET, LIVERPOOL.
PREFACE.
The historical information contained in this volume has been in a large measure collected from the Press of the period, and chiefly from the Times, Liverpool Mercury, Glasgow Herald, and Chambers’ Journal. Lindsay’s “Merchant Shipping,” a most admirable work, has also been consulted, as well as other works of a similar nature. The name of the authority quoted has been given in most cases, but, where I have been unable to do so, I trust this general acknowledgment will suffice.
Some of the chapters in Part II. were contributed in 1901 to the Journal of Commerce, as part of a series of articles on “Historical Steamship Companies.” Chapter XXII. in Part I. was published in the May number (1903) of the Wide World Magazine, under the title of “The Strange Case of the Ferret.”