Steam-ships

by R. A. Fletcher

INDEX

(N.B.—All vessels are indexed under Ships named.)

• Aberdeen Line, Rennie’s, [183]; Thompson’s, [296]
• Aberdeen schooners, [85]
• Accidents, steam-ship, inquiry into, [77]
• Adelaide Steamship Co., [347]
• Admiralty, the, steam packet, [102]; vessels, [176]; and floating docks, [356], [362]; and private shipbuilding yards, [319]; and twin screws, [325]; and wooden three-deckers, [316]
• Æolipile of Hero of Alexandria, [9]
• Africa, West, mail service, [261]
• African Steamship Co., [261], [299]
• Ailsa Shipbuilding Co., [99]
• Alabama claims, the, [176]
• Albany Line, [48]
• Albion Co., [298]
• Alexandria-England, carriage of mails, [178]
• Alexandria-Suez, travel between, [167]
• Algiers, U.S.A., floating dock, [358]
• Allaire Works, [173]
• Allan Line, [254]-[255], [281]
• Allen, Dr. John, and jet-propeller, [12]
• Allison, Messrs. M. A., New Jersey, [50]
• Altona floating dock, [355]
• Alvarez, Don José, Chilian Agent, [128]
• America, steam vessels in, in 1817, [45]
• America, South, West Coast of, [263]
• American Civil War, vessels in the, [90], [98], [175], [329]; blockade-runners, [327]
• American ice-breaking steamers, [369]-[371]
• American Line, [256], [291]
• American mail service, [150], [188]
• American Navy, the, [329], [339]
• American pioneers in steam navigation, [19]
• American river steamers, design of, [46]
• American Shipbuilding Co., [54]
• American steam-ships and foreign trade, beginnings of, [153]
• American subsidy to steam-ship service, [155]
• American train ferry-boats, [363]
• Amherst, Lord, [164]
• Anderson, Anderson & Co., [294]
• Anglo-French Co.’s fleet, [118]
• Animal-driven paddles, [2]
• Apcar, Messrs., Calcutta, [264]
• Appleton’s “Cyclopædia of American Biography,” [19], [23]
• Armour plates, [331 et seq.]
• Armstrong, Mitchell & Co., [212], [364]
• Armstrong, Whitworth & Co., [336], [367], [369]
• Armstrong, Sir William, and cupola vessels, [330]
• Aspinwall, C. H., [188]
• Atlantic cable-laying by Great Eastern, [277]
• “Atlantic Greyhound” title won by Alaska, [250]
• Atlantic Liners. See [Allan], [American], [Beaver], [Collins], [Compagnie Générale Transatlantique], [Cunard], [Dominion], [Donaldson], [Galway], [Guion], [Hamburg-Amerika], [Inman], [National], [Norddeutscher Lloyd], [Red Star], [State], and [White Star] Lines
• Atlantic records, [241], [250], [282], [288]
• Atlantic routes adopted, [241]
• Atlantic service. See [Transatlantic]
• Australia, Cape route to, [291]; discovery of gold, [232]; first steam voyage to, [94]; prize for fastest voyage to, [263]
• Australian mail service, [185], [295]
• Australian Royal Mail Steam Navigation Co., [263]
• Australian service of P. & O. Co., [180]
• Australian steamers, the coaling of, [256]
• Australian trade cargo carriers, [294], [297]
• Austria, Empress of, yacht of, [373]
• Austrian-Lloyd Steam Navigation Co., [267]
• Babcock and Wilcox boilers, [359]
• Baikal, Lake, ferry, [365]
• Baltic, Swedish railway ferry, [365]
• Banana trade, West Indies, [299]
• Barclay, Curle & Co., Ltd., [206], [294]
• Barnes, Joseph, [20]
• Barrow-Belfast service, [121]
• Barrow-Isle of Man service, [96], [121]
• Barrow Steam Navigation Co., [121]
• Batteries, floating, [312], [320]
• Bazin, M., invents steamer on wheels, [387]
• Beard, Mr., Scotch ironmaster, [115]
• Beaver Line, [253], [299]
• Bell, Henry, of Helensburgh, [61]; relations with Fulton, [61]; designs a steamboat, [62]
• Bell indicator for steward, [143]
• Belt conveyors, [349]
• Berlin, service to, [117]
• Bermuda floating dock, [355]-[357]
• Bernoulli, Daniel, [207]
• Bessemer, Sir Henry, and gyroscope boat, [379]
• Bilge keel, [281]
• Binney, Capt, L. & N.W.R. Marine Superintendent, [120]
• Bird-foot propellers, [7], [27], [207]
• Birmingham, Eagle Foundry, [4]
• Bishop’s disc engine, [313]
• Black and Saxton Campbell, Quebec, [134]
• Blackett, Capt., R.N., [214]
• Blockade-runners, [90], [98], [174], [175], [327]
• Blohm and Voss floating dock, [362]
• Blue Anchor Line, [297]
• Boats driven by animals, [2]
• Boats for safety, [78]
• Boilers, [229]-[230], [306]; without water, [39]; pressure, [210]; tubular, [209]; in warships, [337]
• Bombay floating dock, [363]
• Bombay, steamer launched at, [202]
• Borrie, Peter, [376]
• Boston-Liverpool trade, [288]
• Boulton and Watt engines, [30], [66], [81], [134], [311]
• Bourne, Messrs., [176]
• Bourne, William, proposition (1578), [6]
• Bows of steamers, shape of, [71]
• Branca, Giovanni, and steam (1629), [9]
• Brazil trade, [183]
• Bremen-New York service, [305]
• Bremen floating docks, [362]
• Brent, Mr., Deptford, [131]
• Bridgewater, Duke of, [61]
• Brighton, [106]
• Bristol-Waterford trade, [75]
• British and African Steam Navigation Co., Ltd., [299]
• British and American Steam Navigation Co., [138], [148]
• British and Foreign Steam Navigation Co., [110], [111], [177]
• British and Irish Steam Packet Co., [97]
• British and North American Royal Mail Steam Packet Co. See [Cunard Line]
• British India Steam Navigation Co., [181], [185]
• British Queen Steam Navigation Co., [138]
• British steam-ships, beginnings of, [56]
• Brown, John, & Co., Clydebank, [337]
• Brown-Curtis turbine, [337]
• Brown, Mr. W. H., New York, [158]
• Brownne, Charles, builder of the Clermont, [36]
• Brunel, Isambard K., [78], [208], [236], [263]; designs the Great Britain, [221]; and the Great Eastern, [269]-[278]
• Brunel, Sir Mark, [224]
• “Bulk freighter,” [82]
• Bulkheads, [230], [235]
• Bunker, Captain Elihu S., rivals Fulton, [36], [39]
• Burmese War, [165]
• Burns, Mr. John, and Mr. S. Cunard, [150]
• Bury, Curtice, and Kennedy, Liverpool, [231]
• Bushnell, David, designs submarines, [206], [276]; and applies screw propeller, [206]
• Caird, Messrs., of Greenock, [119], [241], [293], [294], [305]
• Calcutta and Burmah Steam Navigation Co., [181]
• Calcutta, steamers to, via the Cape, [184]; and Suez service, [178]; to Spithead, length of passage in 1840, [167]
• Calcutta Steam Committee, [166]
• California gold rush, [188]
• Californian trade, [188]
• Callao floating dock, [360]
• Calliope, the, musical instrument, [50]
• Caloric engines, [384]
• Cameron, T., & Co., Messrs., [100]
• Cammell, Laird & Co., [338]
• Campbell, Johnston & Co., floating dock at Bermuda, [356]
• Canada, mail steam-ship line to, [254]; lines to, [255]
• Canadian-built lake steamers, [55]
• Canadian claims for first steam crossing of Atlantic, [135]
• Canadian ice-breaking steamers, [369]-[371]
• Canadian Pacific Railway, [299]
• Canadian trade, [289]
• Canso, Straits of, railway ferry, [369]
• Cantilever-framed steamers, [346]
• Cape route to India, [167]
• Cape to Spithead, length of passage (1840), [169]
• Cape of Good Hope mail subsidy, [183]
• Cape Town-Durban mails, [183]
• Cargo-boats, [342]-[352]
• Carron Shipping Co., the, [85]-[87]
• Carron Works, [56]
• Cartagena floating dock, [363]
• Cattle steamers, [345]
• Caus, Salomon de, [10]
• Ceylon-Hong-Kong mails, [179]
• “Chambers’ Journal,” account of the Great Eastern, [271]-[275]
• Channel Islands service, [109]-[112]
• Chester and Holyhead Railway Co., [103]; absorbed by L. & N.W.R., [119]
• Chili, [189]
• Chili coal mines, [187]
• Chilian Revolution, The Rising Star and the, [126]
• China, P. & O. Co. service to, [180]; ships for, [206]
• China trade, [173]; ships in, [265]
• Chinese paddle-wheels, ancient, [4]
• Cigar (shaped) ships, [375], [380]
• City of Dublin Steam Packet Co. See [Dublin]
• Clark, Edwin, and floating docks, [363]
• Clark and Standfield and floating docks, [355], [361]
• Cleopatra’s Needle, [341]
• Clippers, Yankee wooden, [194]
• Clyde, Bell’s steamboat on the, [62]; first Cunarders built on the, [151]; first steamer on the, [28]; steamers on the, in 1818, [76]. See also [Glasgow]
• Clyde ferries, [366]
• Clyde to Liverpool, first passenger-steamer, [95]
• Coach fare, Scotland to London, [85]
• Coal at Suez, [166]
• Coal consumption, [229]; of turbines, [309]; in early voyages across Atlantic, [142]
• Coal, difficulty of carrying, for long voyages, [169]
• Coalfields, Midland, [213]
• Coaling for steamers, [256]
• Coastal steam-ship service, development of, [80]; British, [71]
• Coasting trade of the United Kingdom in 1822-39, [76], [77]
• Cochrane, Hon. William E., [127], [129]
• Cockerill (Belgian firm), [321]
• “Coffin brigs,” [149]
• Colden, Cadwallader D., on Robert Fulton, [26]
• Coles, Capt., and cupola vessels, [330]; tripod masts, [332]; drowned, [334]
• Collier belt conveyors, [349]
• Colliers, screw, [214]
• Collier, steam, with a screw, first, [213]
• Collingwood Shipbuilding Co., Ontario, [55]
• Collins, Mrs., and children drowned, [160]
• Collins, Mr. K. Edward, New York, [155]
• Collins Line, [153], [155 et seq.]; construction of ships, [158]; secures premier position, [159]; extravagances and losses, [159]; subsidy reduced and line ceased, [161]; service, [240]
• Collisions, intentional, [53]
• Colon, service to, [191]
• Commercial Steam Packet Co., [111]
• Compagnie Belge Maritime du Congo, [299]
• Compagnie Générale Transatlantique, [267]
• Compañia de Vapores Correos Interinsulares Canarios, [299]
• Confederate States of America, steamers, [90], [98], [174]; commissioners, [262]
• Connecticut River, Morey’s steamboat on, [24]
• Continental passenger traffic, [105]
• Cootes, Mr., Walker-on-Tyne, [211], [213]
• Cork Steamship Co., [97], [139]
• Corrugated steam-ship, [349]
• Craggs, R., & Sons, Ltd., [348], [349]
• Cramp, Messrs., Philadelphia, [256], [291], [340]
• Crimean War, [98]; iron vessel in the, [316]; and shipbuilding yards, [319]; floating batteries, [312], [320]; P. & O. steamers employed, [180]; steam-ships in the, [312]; transports, [183], [239], [262]
• Cruisers, armed mercantile, [287], [291]
• Cunard Line, [281]-[287]; first Cunarder based on Manx steamer, [87]; beginnings, [150]; sizes, &c. of first steamers, [151]; increase of business, [152]; builds iron ships, [153]; rivalry with Inman Line, [240]; first iron steamer, [243]; last paddle-steamer, [246]; adopt screw-steamers, [246]
• Cunard, Mr. Samuel, [134], [149]
• Curling, Young & Co., Messrs., [138], [146], [187]
• Curtis turbines, [338]
• Cutters in Channel Islands service, [109]
• Cutwaters, straight, [158]
• Dalswinton, [58]
• Davey, Mr. W. J., [299]
• Dawson’s steamer, London-Gravesend, [70]
• Day Line, [49], [51]
• Day, Summers & Co., [114]
• Decks for passengers, [42]
• Delaware River, early steamboats on the, [25], [29]
• Dempster, John, [299]
• Denny Bros., Dumbarton, ships by, [96], [105], [281], [310]
• Dent & Co., [203]
• Destroyers, [336]
• Dewey floating dock, [362]
• Dicey, Capt., [377]
• Dickenson, Robert, and iron ships, [195]
• Dieppe-Honfleur route, [108]
• Displacement, theory of, [30], [193]
• Ditchburn and Mare, Blackwall, ships by, [233], [234], [260], [313], [371], [372]
• Dixon, Sir Raylton, & Co., Ltd., [346]
• Docks, dry, difficulties of, [353]; floating, [352]-[363]
• Dod, Daniel, [123]
• Dodd, Capt., of the Thames, [67]
• Dominion Line, [243], [288]
• Donaldson Line, [255]
• Dover-Calais service, [72], [105]; designs to prevent sea-sickness, [377]-[379]; race, paddle v. screw, [259]; proposed railway ferry, [366]
• Doxford, Messrs., and the rolling of ships’ plates, [345]; and shifting cargo in bulk, [346], [351]
• Dramatic Line, [155]
• Dublin and Liverpool Steam Navigation Co., [73], [74]
• Dublin and London Steam Packet Co., [176]
• Dublin, City of, Steam Packet Co., [72], [74], [89]; service to London, [97]; Irish mail service, [102]-[104]; and transatlantic service, [144]
• Dublin-London service, [97]
• Dublin-Wexford service, [98]
• Duck-foot paddles, [7], [27], [207]
• Dudgeon, Messrs. J. & W., ships and engines by, [108], [184], [186], [234], [264], [265], [322]; expansion engines and screw propellers, [256]; first apply twin-screws, [325]
• Duncan, R. (shipbuilder), [151]
• Dundas, Lord, [28], [57], [59]
• Dundee, Perth, and London Shipping Co., [87]
• Dundonald, Lord, [127], [129]
• Dundrum Bay, Great Britain ashore, [225]
• Dupuy de Lome, M., [320]
• Durham, Capt., [264]
• Dutch steamers, [76]
• Dynamite gun, [339]
• East, communication between England and the, [164]
• East India Co. and steamers to India, [166]; inefficiency of service, [176]; services, [180], [181]; iron ships for, [317]
• East Indiamen with auxiliary steam, [167]
• Eastern Archipelago Co., [235]
• Eastern Navigation Co., and the Great Eastern, [270 et seq.]
• Eckford, Henry, naval architect, [42]
• Edinburgh and Leith Shipping Co., [84]
• Edinburgh-London service, [81]; by sea, [84]
• Edward VII., yachts of, [371]
• Egyptian royal yachts (Khedive’s), [372], [374]
• Elbing-Schichau Works, [303]
• Elder, Alexander, [299]
• Elder, Dempster & Co., [262], [298], [299]
• Elder, John, [229]
• Elder, John, & Co., Govan, [108], [109], [249], [250], [251], [282], [306]
• Electric lighting on steamers, [242]; incandescent lamps, [281]
• Ellerman Line, [291]
• Ellice, Mr. Edward, and Chilian independence, [128]
• Emigrant traffic to America, [238]
• Engines: compound, [185], [187], [261]; of earliest boats, [199 et seq.]; gas vacuum, [211]; Ogden’s, [219]; multiple-expansion, [229], [256], [306]; reciprocating, [286]; triple-expansion, [296]; high-pressure, [306]; turbine, [307]; reciprocating and turbine, [310]; hot-air, [384]; piston engine development, [387]
• English Channel Steamship Co., [377]
• English river steamers, construction of, [46]
• Ericsson, John, hot-air engines, [384]; screw propellers, [170], [215], [218]
• Ericsson Shipping Co., [349]
• Ericsson’s Monitor, [329]
• “Etoile” engine, [210]
• European and Australian Steam Navigation Co., [184], [185]
• Excursions in early steamboats, [43]
• Exhibition of 1851, extra traffic from, [107]
• Fairfield Co., Govan, [96], [109], [301]
• Fall River Line, [46], [47]
• Falmouth-Mediterranean service, [176]
• Fares, passenger, under competition, [74]
• Faron, Mr., [158]
• Farragut, Admiral, [175]
• Fauber (American engineer) and hydroplane, [386]
• Fawcett & Preston, engines by, [144], [148], [177]
• Ferguson, Mr. John, [206]
• Ferry steamers for railway trains, [363]-[366]
• Ficket, Francis (Ficket and Crocker), [123]
• Finland ice-breaker, [369]
• Fishbourne, Admiral, [316]
• Fishguard-Rosslare service, [116]
• Fitch, John, as inventor of steamboats, [21]; his ideas taken by Fulton, [23], [24]
• Fleetwood-Dublin service, [102]
• Fletcher, W. & A., Co., Hoboken, [51]
• Floating docks, [352]-[363]
• Folkstone-Boulogne service, [106]
• Forbes, Mr. R. B., Boston, [170]
• Ford’s (Edward) patent of 1646, [8]
• Forenade Line of Copenhagen, [117]
• Fortanini hydroplan, [385]
• Forth and Clyde Canal, [57], [59]
• Forwood Line, [300]
• France-England, first steamer communication between, [72]
• Franco-German War, [115]
• Franklin, Benjamin, [21]
• Freeman, Mr., of Chipping Campden, [13]
• French Government, experiments in warships, [338]; and Crimean War transports, [240]
• French steamers entering British ports, [76]
• French Transatlantic Co., [115]
• Fulton, Robert, as inventor of steamboats, [19]; and drawings of John Fitch, [23], [24]; financed by Livingston, [25]; his career, [25]; experiments with submarines, [26]; corresponds with Lord Stanhope, [27]; steamboat experiments, [28]; relations with Symington, [28]; the Clermont, [30]; list of his steamboats, [35]; relations with Bell & Miller, [61]
• Funnels, four, [92]; masts used as, [212], [218]
• Fyfe, William, of Fairlie, [66]
• Galley, Illyrian, propelled by oxen, [6]
• Galway-America service, [98]; to Portland, Maine, [162]; to Newfoundland, route, [162]
• Galway Line to America, [161]-[163]
• Gas-lighting experiment, [253]
• Gas-machinery propulsion, [340]
• General Iron Screw-Collier Co., [233]
• General Screw Shipping Co., [233]
• General Steam Navigation Co., [81]-[83]; joint service with G.E.R., [117]
• Genevois (J. A.) propellers (1759), [8]
• German Emperor’s yacht, [371]
• German Navy, [303]
• German shipbuilding, [302]; State-developed, [303]
• Germania shipbuilding establishment, [303]
• Germanischer Lloyd, [302]
• Germany as a Naval Power, [339]
• Gibbs, Antony, & Sons, [227]
• Gibbs, Bright & Co., [226]
• Glasgow ferries, [366]
• Glasgow-Inverness service, [100]
• Glasgow-Ireland service, [100]
• Glasgow-Liverpool service, [100]. See also [Clyde]
• Glasgow, transatlantic service from, [237]
• Glasgow and Dublin Screw Steam Packet Co., [101]
• Glasgow and New York Steamship Co., [240]
• Gordon & Co., Deptford, [165]
• Goudie, James, [134]
• Graham, Osbourne, & Co., [349]
• Grand Trunk Railway, [255]
• Gray, Wm., & Co., Ltd., West Hartlepool, [347]
• Gray’s (McFarlane) steam steering gear, [241]
• Grayson & Leadley, Liverpool, [73]
• Great Central Railway Co.’s steamers, [118]
• Great Eastern Railway Co.’s steamers, [116]-[118]
• Great Western Railway Co.’s service to the Channel Islands, [112]; other services, [116]
• Great Western Steamship Co. formed, [138]; and American mails, [150]; and ocean screw steamer, [220]
• Green, F., & Co., [294]
• Green, R. & H., & Co., [167], [234], [295], [373]
• Griffiths, John Wm., [339]
• Griffith’s propeller, [245]
• Grimsby-Continent service, [118]
• Guion, Mr. S. B., founds the Guion Line, [247]; progress of the line, [248]-[251]; death of Mr. Guion and line dissolved, [251]
• Gurley Bros., [108]
• Hamburg floating dock, [362]
• Hamburg-Amerika Linie, [267], [302], [305]-[306]
• Hamburg Reiherstieg Shipbuilding Works, [302], [303]
• Hamilton, William, & Co., Ltd., Port Glasgow, [348]
• Harland & Wolff, ships built by, [252], [289], [293], [297], [305]
• Harnden & Co., Boston, [155]
• Harroway and Dixon cantilever framed steamers, [346]
• Harwich-Antwerp service, [117]
• Harwich-Esbjerg service, [117]
• Harwich-Hook of Holland service, [117]
• Harwich-Rotterdam service, [117]
• Havana floating dock, [353]
• Hawthorn, engine by, [212]
• Hendersons of Glasgow, [264]
• Hepworth, Mr. John, [382]
• Hero of Alexandria and steam, [9]
• Heysham Harbour, [121]
• Heysham-Isle of Man service, [121]
• Hodgson, James, Liverpool, on cost of iron ships, [230]; introduces tubular iron vessels, [235]
• Hogg & Co., New York, [172]
• Hogging and sagging, [46], [194], [268]
• Hogging frame, Stevens’, [46], [194]
• Hollar’s submarine (1653), [375]
• Holyhead-Dublin service, [72], [103], [110]
• Holyhead-Greenore service, [120]
• Holyhead-Kingstown service, [204]
• Hong-Kong-Sans Francisco, White Star service, [243]
• Hong-Kong-Shanghai service, [203]
• Hook of Holland, [117]
• Horseley & Co., Tipton, [110]
• Horseley Iron Works, [195]
• Hough, Samuel, & Co., [100]
• Howden’s forced draught, [366]
• Howell’s “homogeneous metal,” [279]
• Huddart, Parker & Co. Proprietary, Ltd., [97]
• Hudson River steamboats, [25], [29], [30], [47]; screw boats, [207]
• Hudson River Day Line, [49]
• Hulls, double, [270], [347], [375]; triple, [388]
• Hulls, Jonathan, as inventor of the steamboat, [12]
• Humber, Continental service from the, [118]
• Hunt, Seth, of Louisiana, [45]
• Hydraulic propulsion, [321]-[325]
• Hydrocurve, [385]
• Hydroplan, [385]
• Hydroplane, [386]
• Iceberg, Guion liner’s escape from, [250]
• Ice-breaking steamers, [367]-[371]
• Imperial Direct West India Mail service, [299]
• India, first steamer built in, [202]; steam communication with, [164]; Government subsidy, [164]; purchase vessel, [165]; mails to, [176], [177]; traffic to, [184]
• Indian Mutiny, P. & O. steamers employed owing to, [180]
• Indian rivers, navigation of, [205]
• Indus, the, steamers on, [202]
• Inglis, A. & J., Glasgow, ships built by, [86], [184], [185], [206], [374]
• Inman and International Line, [290]-[291]
• Inman Line, [237]-[243]; rivalry with Cunard Line, [240]; absorbed by American Line, [256]
• Inman, Mr. William, [237], [243]
• Intercolonial Railway, Canada, [255]
• International Navigation Co. acquires Inman steamers, [243]
• Ireland, early iron ships in, [196]
• Ireland-England, first steam communication, [71]
• “Irish Brigade,” [262]
• Irish cross-Channel service rivalry, [74]
• Irish mail, &c., traffic, [102], [119]
• Iron barge, experimental, [195]
• Ironclads, advent of, [320]; without masts, [333]
• Iron ships: first on Long Island Sound, [47]; first cross-Channel, [75]; introduction of screw propellers, [97]; introduction of iron, [191]; length of, [194]; suitability, [193]; saving in weight, [194]; proposal to build iron ships decided, [195]; first vessel for commercial purposes, [195]; first iron steamer, [195]; growth of iron shipbuilding, [196 et seq.]; strange vessels, [211]; developments, [230]; cost of iron ships, [230]; tubular type, [235]; first Cunarder, [243]; Admiralty’s conservatism against iron, [316]
• Isherwood system of construction, [348]
• Isle of Man, Liverpool, and Manchester Co., [96]
• Isle of Man Steam Packet Co., [87]-[94]. See also [Man, Isle of]
• Ismay, Mr. T. H., [251]
• Ismay, Imrie & Co., [296]
• Jackson, Mr. W., [132]
• Jamaica fruit trade, [299]
• Jamson, Dougal, and the steamboat, story of, [62]
• Japanese engineers, story of, [203]
• Japanese submarines, [301]
• Japanese warship building, [339]
• Jersey fisheries guardship, [110]
• Jersey-France service, [112]
• Jesuit Fathers of Peking, “Memoires” of, [4]
• Johnston, Lieut., [164]
• Jointed Ship Co., [380]
• Jones, Sir Alfred L., [298], [299]
• Jones, Dr. P., and single screw, [209]
• Jordan, J., & Co., engines by, [248]
• Jouffroy d’Abbans, Marquis de, [15]
• Kiel naval harbour, [303]
• Kier, Mr., engineer, [130]
• Kirk, Dr. Alexander, and triple-expansion engines, [296], [306]
• Kirkaldy, David, drawings by, [243]; and hardening of steel, [279]
• Klawitter, Dantzic, [303]
• Laird, Messrs., Birkenhead, ships built by, [75], [119], [262], [279], [316], [317], [332], [334]
• Laird, Alex., & Co., Messrs., [100]
• Laird, John, of Birkenhead, and iron shipbuilding, [196]
• Laird, Mr. Macgregor, [138], [261]
• Lake steamers, American, [51]
• Lange, Johann, shipyard, [302]
• Langley, Messrs. C., Deptford, [373]
• Langtry Co., of Belfast, [74]
• Lardner, Dr., and transatlantic steam navigation, [137]
• Launch, Indian custom at, [202]
• Law, George, and American mails, [188]
• Leith and Berwick Co., [84]
• Lever, Mr., of Manchester, [162]
• “Leviathans,” [270]
• Life-boats as paddle-boxes, [79]
• Life-buoys, belts, &c., [78]
• Lighting of ships, [253]
• Lindsay’s boiler-scaling apparatus, [203]
• Little, James, & Co., Messrs., [95]-[97]
• Littlehampton, [108]
• Liverpool and tugboats, [341]; first iron screw steamer from, [235]; dock to accommodate American liners, [157]; steam-ship companies, [77]
• Liverpool, voyage of the Elizabeth to, from Glasgow, [64]
• Liverpool-Bristol service, [100]
• Liverpool-Dublin mail service, [102]
• Liverpool-Isle of Man service, [87]-[94], [96]
• Liverpool-Kingstown service, [144]
• Liverpool-London service, [98], [99]
• Liverpool-New York service, [240]
• Liverpool-Philadelphia service, [240]
• Liverpool-Valparaiso service, [264]
• Liverpool and Philadelphia Steamship Co., [238]
• Liverpool, New York, and Philadelphia Steamship Co., [240]
• Livingston, Chancellor R., and Morey’s steamboats, [24]; finances Fulton, [25]; experiments in steam propulsion, [208]
• Livingstone expedition, steel steamer for, [279]
• Livingston’s “Historical Account of the Application of Steam for the Propelling of Boats,” [19]
• Lloyd’s, first steamer entered at, [100]
• Lodge-Muirhead wireless telegraphy, [121]
• London and tugboats, [341]; shipbuilding, [233]-[234]; City Corporation employees and the Watermen’s Co., [80]; County Council steamers, [367]; river steamboat service opened, [66]
• London, Glasgow to, first steamer, [66]
• London-Hamburg service, [117]
• London-Margate service, [70]
• London and Edinburgh Shipping Co., [83]-[85]
• London and Leith Shipping Co., [84]
• London and North-Western Railway Co.’s steamers, [119]-[121]
• London and South-Western Railway Co.’s steamers, [109]-[116]; Manx boat purchased from, [93]
• London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway Co.’s steamers, [106]-[109]
• London, Leith, and Edinburgh Shipping Co., [74]
• Long Island Sound, First iron steamboat on, [47]
• Long Island Sound Line, [40]
• Longitudinal system of ship construction, [268], [348]
• Louis Philippe of France, escape of, [113]
• Louvre Museum, Kirkaldy’s designs in, [246]
• Lund, Mr. W., [297]
• Lungley, Mr., ship built by, [264]
• Lyttleton, Wm., [207]
• McDougall, Capt., [55]
• McGregor, Mr. John, and early Chinese paddle-wheels, [4]
• McGregor, Laird & Co., [196]
• MacIver, Mr. David, and Mr. S. Cunard, [150]
• McKean, McLarty, and Lament, [254]
• Mackenzie, William, master of the Comet, [63]
• McKinnon & Co., Glasgow, [181]
• MacLachlan, Archibald, [66]
• McQueen, Robert, [39], [52]
• Mahmoudieh Canal, [179]
• Mails, officer in charge of, to West Indies, [190]
• Mails to America, [149]; to India, [176], [177]; to Ireland, [102]
• Makaroff, Vice-Admiral, [367]
• Malcomson’s London and Dublin Line, [99]
• Malta floating dock, [363]
• Man, Isle of, first steamers at, [88]; first built there, [89]; history of the Manx service, [87]-[94]; Barrow service, [96]
• Manby, Mr., [195]
• Maples and Morris, Messrs., [106], [107]
• Mare’s Shipyard, Blackwall. See [Ditchburn and Mare]
• Marine engines. See [Engines]
• Marinsky Canal, [364]
• Maryland Steel Co., Baltimore, floating docks, [358], [362]
• Maschinenbau-Gesellschaft, [303]
• Mason, Mr., [262]
• Masts on steam-ships, [41]; used as funnels, [212], [218]; tripod, [332]; on warships, [338]
• Mastless steamers, [346]
• Maudslay, Sons & Field, founder of the firm, [70]; engines by, [148], [201], [202], [233], [253], [319], [372]; connection with the Royal Navy, [311]; yards of, [234]
• Maury, Lieut., [241]
• Mediterranean ports, [111]
• Mediterranean service, [267]
• Merchants’ Shipping Co., [47]
• Mersey ferries, [366]
• Messageries Maritimes de France, [267]
• Mexican Government and iron frigate, [316]
• Mexican War, [174]
• Middleton Yard, Hartlepool, [305]
• Midland Railway Co.’s steamers, [121]
• Milford-Rosslare service, [116]
• Millard and Kirby, Messrs., and Fulton’s Clermont, [50]
• Miller and Ravenhill, engines by, [187], [372]
• Miller, Patrick, [57], [58], [388]
• Mills, Mr. Edward, [154]
• Mississippi River steamers, [53]; Fitch’s steamboat, [23]; Fulton’s steamboat, [32]; Moselle and Oroonoko blown up, [53]; intentional collisions, [53]
• Mitchell, Mr. Charles, [212]
• Monaco, Prince of, yacht of, [373]
• “Monitors,” [334]
• Monroe, President, [123]
• Moore, Admiral Sir Grayham, [217]
• Moray, John, on James Rumsay as inventor of steamboats, [19]
• Morey, Samuel, invents a steamboat, [24]
• Morgan Combine, [228]
• Morisot’s “Orbis Maritimi,” [6]
• Morland, Sir S., [10]
• Motor-boats (hydroplane), [385]; (hydrocurve), [385]
• Napier, Admiral Sir Charles, [195]
• Napier, David, and the boiler of the Comet, [63]; and the shape of bows of steamers, [71]; provides engines, [72]
• Napier, Robert & Sons, engines by, [72], [88], [89], [147], [151], [157]; and Mr. S. Cunard, [149]; present engine of the Comet to South Kensington Museum, [64]; and David Kirkaldy, [243]; and high-pressure boilers of steel, [279]
• Napoleon III., yacht of, [373]
• National Line, [254]
• Naval Construction Co., Barrow, [99]
• Navy, Royal, steam-power and the, [311]-[340]; last wooden battleship, [319]; first twin-screw boat, [328]; ironclads without masts, [333]; torpedo boats, [336]; destroyers, [336]; development, [336]
• Neilson, Walter N., [229]
• New England Ocean Steamship Co., [155]
• New York celebrates the arrival of early steamers, [141]
• New York-Aspinwall mails, [188]
• New York-Bremen service, [154]
• New York-Chagres line, [188]
• New York-Havana service, [189]
• New York-Liverpool, lines in 1850, [155]
• New York and Havre Steam Navigation Co., [154]
• New York Shipbuilding Co., Camden, N.J., [51]
• New Zealand Government subsidy, [185]; service to, [298]
• New Zealand Shipping Co., [310]
• Newcomen and Savery, [11]
• Newfoundland Government and mails, [162]
• Newhaven-Dieppe service, [106]
• Newport News Shipbuilding, &c., Co., [340]
• Niger exploration, [280]
• Norddeutsche Werft, [303]
• Norddeutscher Lloyd, [267], [302], [303]-[305]
• Normand, A, Havre, [373]
• North Lancashire Railways, [102], [103]
• North Sea, [84]
• Northumberland Straits passenger service, [370]
• Oak, scarcity of, and use of iron for ships, [195]
• Ocean liner, express, modern type of, [252]
• Ocean Steam Navigation Co., [154]
• Oceanic Steam Navigation Co., [252]
• Ogden, Mr., American Consul, [219]
• Oil-tank steamers, [348], [351]
• Oldham’s revolving bars, [195]
• Orient Line, [264], [291], [294]-[296]
• Orient-Pacific Line, [295]
• Orient Royal Line, [295]
• Original Steam Packet Co., [72]
• Ostend-Dover service, [309]
• Oude, Rajah of, generosity of, [165]
• Ouseburn engine works, [306]
• Overcrowding passenger steamers, [79]
• “Overland Route” to India. See [Suez]
• Pacific coast of S. America trade, [187]
• Pacific and Australasian Co., [239]
• Pacific Mail Line, [188]
• Pacific Steam Navigation Co., [186], [187], [189], [191], [229], [263], [291], [294], [295]
• Paddle-wheels, evolution of, [1]; motive-power, [1]; animal-driven, [2]; early forms, [2], [4]; early experiments, [10], [12]; Jouffroy’s invention, [17]; Morey’s inventions, [24]; Roosevelt’s invention, [25]; Patrick Miller’s invention, [58]; vertical, [25]; disconnecting, [33]; Seward’s invention, [110]; development in construction, [197]-[199]; duck-foot paddles, [207]; elliptical, [208]; horizontal centrifugal, [208]; superseded by screw, [191]
• Paddle v. screw races, [259]; tests, [312]
• Paddle-boxes as lifeboats, [78]
• Palmer, Sir Charles, [214]
• Palmer Bros. & Co., ships built by, [114], [213], [247], [248]; and rolled armour plates, [385]
• Panama-Astoria service, [189]
• Panama-San Francisco mails, [188], [189]
• Panama, New Zealand, and Australian Royal Mail Co., [185]
• Panama Railway, [174], [187], [191], [262]
• Panama route, [187]
• Panciroli’s “Rerum memorabilium,” [6]
• Papal yacht, [372]
• Papin, Dr. Dennis, inventions of, [11]
• Paris Exhibition, 1878, traffic, [109]
• Parsee custom at launch, [202]
• Parsons, Hon. A. C., on turbines, [307]
• Parsons turbines, [118], [307], [338]
• Passengers carried by Sirius across Atlantic, [141]; first steamer for passengers and cargo, [72]
• Patersen, Capt. Robert, [86]
• Paterson of Bristol, [141], [221]
• Paul, Capt. Fred, R.N., [113]
• Paulding, James Kirke, [339]
• Peacock, Capt. George, and mechanical swan yacht, [383]
• Pearse & Co., Stockton-on-Tees, [205]
• Penarth floating dock, [359]
• Peninsular and Oriental (P. & O.) Co., incorporated, [178]; first steamer to India, [179]; transport over Suez isthmus, [179]; services to India and China, [180]; subsidy for Indian mails, [180]; Australian service, [180]; difficulties on opening of Suez Canal, [182]; overland route through Egypt closed, [182]; ships, [260]-[261]; increase of size of ships, [291], [293]; and Australian trade, [294]; acquires Blue Anchor Line, [297]
• Peninsular Steam Navigation Co., [176]-[178]; becomes the P. & O. Co., [178]
• Penn, John, and Son, engines by, [226], [233], [260]; oscillating engines, [201], [314]; number of engines fitted by, [315]; for the Crimean War, [319]; and screw bearings, [219]
• Périer’s fire pump, [16]
• Perkins’ tri-compound engines, [306]
• Peru, [189]
• Petroleum steamers, [351]
• Philadelphia Line, [43]
• Philippines, floating dock for, [362]
• Phillips, Sir Richard, [69]
• Pirrie, Lord, [298]
• Porter’s patent anchor, [223]
• Portsmouth-Ryde, [232]
• Potomac, early steamboats on the, [20]
• Powell (H. & Co.) Line, [99]
• Propeller, screw. See [Screws]
• Propelling vessels by recoil from cannon, [8]; by animals, [2]; by steam, early experiments, [10]-[11]; by pumping water, [12]; by screws, [29]. See also [Paddle-wheels]
• Propelling without paddles, reward for, [210]
• Pyroscaphe, the, [15]
• Quebec and Halifax Steam Navigation Co., [134]
• Racing, Ocean, [247]; steamboat, [53]; paddle v. screw, [259]
• Railway companies and their steamships, [102]-[121]
• Railway trains, ferrying of, [363]-[366]
• Ramage and Ferguson, Ltd., Leith, [375]
• Rams, [329]
• Ramsay’s (David) patent boats (1618), [6]
• Ramus, Rev. C. M., and hydroplane, [386]
• Randolph, Charles, [229]
• Randolph, Elder & Co., [229]
• Rangoon wooden dock, [354]
• Rate wars, [74], [80], [94]
• Rateau turbines, [307]
• Red Cross Line, [231]
• Red Sea steamer service, [166]; to the Mediterranean transport, [179]
• Red Star Line, [256]
• Refrigerators, [298]
• Registration of steamers, [77]
• Reid, Mr. E. J., designs Koenig Wilhelm, [333]
• Reid’s U bow, [332]
• Reiherstieg yard, Hamburg, [302], [303]
• Rennie, Capt. George, [183]
• Rennie’s “Aberdeen” Line, [183]
• Rennie, G. & J., engines by, [233], [313]; and Ship Propeller Co., [216]; floating docks, [355], [363]
• Renwick, Dr. James, [29]
• Repairs to steam-ships, [300]
• Reversing machinery, [70]
• Richardson Bros. & Co., [238], [239]
• Rivalry between steam-ship companies, [73]
• Roberts, Lieut., R.N., [138], [145]
• Robertson, John, [62]
• Robertson, Robert, engineer, [63]
• Robinson and Russell, [232], [319]
• Roebuck, Dr., [86]
• Rogers, Capt., of the Savannah, [125]
• Rogers, Moses, pioneer steam navigator, [30], [123]
• Roosevelt, Nicholas J., invents paddle-boat, [25]; associated with Fulton, [42]; experiments in steam propulsion, [208]
• Ropner & Sons, Ltd., [348]
• Rostock “Neptun” yard, [302]
• Rotterdam, railway round, [117]
• Rouss, Mr. W. P., yacht of, [374]
• Royal Academy, steam-ship designs exhibited at, [245]
• Royal Mail Steam Packet Co., [185], [189]-[191], [262]-[263], [291], [295], [299]-[300]
• Royal Netherlands Steamship Co., [91]
• Royal yachts, [371]-[374]
• Rubic and Blaker, Northam, [110]
• Rudders, bow, [106]; balanced for turbine vessels, [105]; submerged, [290]
• Rumsay, James, as the inventor of the steamboat, [19]
• Rumsay Society, [21]
• Rupert, Prince Palatine, and boat propeller, [11]
• Rushen, Mr. P. C., on Jonathan Hulls’ invention, [14]
• Russell & Co., clipper built by, [173]
• Russell, Robinson & Co., [107]
• Russell, Mr. Scott, and the Wave Queen, [107]; and wave-line construction, [236], [316], [320]; shipbuilding on the Thames, [204], [234]; designs Victoria, [263]; and the Great Eastern, [268], [278]
• Russian Government ice-breaker, [367]; Navy floating dock, [363]; royal yachts, [371], [373]
• Ruthven’s hydraulic propulsion, [208], [321]-[325]
• “Sag,” [46], [194], [268]
• Sail power on liners, [158]
• Sailing clippers, American, fast passages of, [153]
• Sailing vessels, engines put into, [135], [136]; vessel with steam as auxiliary crosses Atlantic, [122]; steam auxiliary to, [164]-[192]
• St. George Steam Packet Co., [72], [94], [97], [100], [101]
• St. Lawrence River ice-breaker, [369]
• Saloons above deck first fitted, [206]; oscillating, [253]
• Samuda Bros., [204], [234]
• San Francisco Union Iron Works, [340]
• Saône, paddle-steamer on the (1783), [17]
• Sassnitz-Trelleborg railway ferry, [365]
• Sault Ste. Marie Canal, [52]
• Savery, Thomas, invention of, [11]
• Scarborough and Isaacs, Messrs., [122]
• Schlick balancing of engines, [120]
• Schultz turbines, [388]
• Scott, Capt., of Rising Star, [131]
• Scott, Mr. John, figure-head of, [318]
• Scott, Russell & Co., Millwall, [204]
• Scott, Sinclair & Co., Greenock, [318]
• Screw propellers, invention of 29; first Manx steamer to use, [92]; for sea-going steamers, [97]; supersede paddle-wheels, [191]; tried in 1802, [192]; earliest attempts to apply, [206], [207]; movement of vessels with single screw, [209]; twin-screws, [210]; first ocean steamer with twin-screws, [265]; fantastic forms, [215]; first sea-going vessel with screw, [216]; definitely adopted, [219]; lifting propeller, [253]; for long voyages, [256]; adopted for mail boats, [262]; multiple screws, [310]; first vessel in the Royal Navy with, [313]; removable screws, [318]; twin screws, [325]; tests of twin screws, [326]
• Sea-sickness, steamers to prevent, [253], [377]-[379]
• Sea voyage, first British steamer to make a, [64]
• Seamen, pay of, in 1821, [132]
• Seaward and Capel, Limehouse, [169]
• Seaward, J., & Co., Millwall, [373]
• Seaward’s vibrating paddles, [110]
• Seine, first iron steamer on the, [195]
• Sewall & Co., [194]
• Sewell and Faron, [158]
• Shaw, Savill & Albion Co., [297]
• Shelter deck, [344]
• Ship Propeller Co., [216]
• Shipbuilding, German competition, [302]. See also [Thames]
• Ships named:
• Aaron Manby, [195]
• Aberdeen, [296], [307]
• Achilles, [315]
• Aconcagua, [264]
• Active, [311]
• Ada, [116]
• Adelaide, [269]
• Adirondack, [48], [170]
• Admiral Moorsom, [119]
• Adriatic, [161], [163], [253], [289]
• Aetna, [35]
• Africa, [153], [155]
• African, [176]
• Agamemnon, [315]
• Aguila, [112]
• Ajax, [315]
• Alabama, [175]
• Alaska, [172], [250]
• Alberta, [116]
• Alecto, [312]
• Alexandra (L. & S.W.R.), [116]
• Alexandra (L. & N.W.R.), [119]
• Alexandra (Royal Yacht), [371]
• Alice, [115]
• Alida, [49]
• Alliance, [113], [114]
• Alma, [114], [116]
• Amazon, [300]
• America (Cunard Co.), [152], [245], [286]
• America (National Line), [254]
• America (Yacht), [158]
• American Turtle, [376]
• Amerika, [305]
• Amethyst, [309], [335]
• Anglia, [104], [120]
• Anglo-Saxon, [255]
• Annette, [173]
• Antarctic, [157]
• Antelope, [235]
• Antrim, [121]
• Apollo, [110]
• Aquila, [107]
• Arabia, [153]
• Arago, [154]
• Aragon, [300]
• Araguaya, [300]
• Arcadia, [151]
• Archimedes, [216], [222]
• Arctic, [157]-[160]
• Argyle, [66]
• Ariadne, [110], [316]
• Arizona, [249]
• Arkansas, [340]
• Armenia, [51]
• Arrogant, H.M.S., [314]
• Arundel, [109]
• Asia, [153], [157]
• Assiniboia, [301]
• Assyrian, [316]
• Astarte, [255]
• Asturias, [300]
• Atalanta, [116], [110], [111], [166]
• Athenia, [255]
• Athole, [206]
• Atlantic, [156], [158]
• Atrato, [271]
• Augusta, [99]
• Aurania, [281]
• Aurora, [327]
• Austral, [295]
• Australasian, [296]
• Avoca, [99]
• Avon, [222], [300]
• Ayrshire Lassie, [106]
• Balmoral Castle, [292]
• Baltic, [157], [158], [181], [287], [288]
• Bann, [319]
• Banshee, [119]
• Barbarossa, [304]
• Baron Osy, [269]
• Barracouta, [175]
• Basilisk, [313]
• Bay State, [47]
• Belfast, [72]
• Belgic, [253]
• Bélier, [334]
• Bellerophon, [80], [315], [334]
• Ben-my-Chree, [89], [92], [93]
• Berenice, [166]
• Bertha, [116]
• Bessemer, [253], [379]
• Birkenhead, [317]
• Black Eagle, [314]
• Black Prince, [315]
• Bogota, [229]
• Borussia, [267], [305]
• Bremen, [267]
• Brighton, [109], [112]
• Bristol, [47], [337]
• Britannia, [151], [154]
• Britannic, [253]
• British Queen, [138], [145]-[147], [169], [216]
• Brittany, [109], [114], [115], [116]
• Brune, [319]
• Buenos Ayrean, [281]
• Buffalo, [35]
• C. Vanderbilt, [49]
• C. W. Morse, [48]
• Calais, [105]
• Calais-Douvres, [378]
• Caledonia, [64], [151]
• California, [188]
• Callao, [229]
• Caloric, [384]
• Calvados, [109]
• Cambria, [104]
• Cambria (Cunard Co.), [151]
• Cambria (L. & N.W.R.), [120]
• Camden, [35]
• Camilla, [110]
• Campania, [282], [287]
• Canada, [152], [245]
• Canadian, [254]
• Cape of Good Hope, [181]
• Captain, [334]
• Car of Neptune, [35], [36], [38], [44]
• Carbon, [235]
• Carmania, [282], [285], [309]
• Caronia, [282]
• Carpathia, [283]
• Carron, [79], [86], [176]
• Cassandra, [255]
• Castalia, [377]
• Cedric, [288]
• Celtic, [253], [288]
• Cerberus, [335], [376]
• Chancellor Livingston, [35], [42], [43]
• Charles Wetmore, [55]
• Charleston, [340]
• Charlotte Dundas, [28], [59], [135], [199]
• Cherbourg, [116]
• Chicago, [248]
• Chili, [187]
• Chimborazo, [264], [295]
• China, [246], [247], [293]
• Cincinnati, [305]
• City of Baltimore, [239]
• City of Belfast, [121]
• City of Berlin, [241], [242]
• City of Bristol, [242]
• City of Brussels, [241]
• City of Chicago, [243]
• City of Cleveland, [54]
• City of Dublin, [72]
• City of Edinburgh, [81]
• City of Glasgow, [96], [237]
• City of Limerick, [97]
• City of Manchester, [238]
• City of New York, [240], [256], [290]
• City of Paris, [241], [246], [256], [290]
• City of Philadelphia, [239]
• City of Pittsburg, [239]
• City of Rome, [242]
• City of Washington, [239]
• Claremont, [307]
• Clermont, [20], [29 et seq.], [49], [135]
• Cleveland, [305]
• Clyde, [64]
• Cobra, [308]
• Coffee Mill, [66]
• Collier, [107]
• Collingwood, [55]
• Colombia, [176]
• Colombo, [181]
• Colorado, [248]
• Columbia, [114], [116], [151]
• Columbus, [288]
• Comet (Bell’s), [62], [135]
• Comet (Dawson’s), [70]
• Comet (French Co.), [112]
• Commerce, [73]
• Commonwealth, [48]
• Conde de Patmella, [122]
• Confiance, [176]
• Connector, [379]
• Connemara, [120]
• Coogee, [96]
• Copenhagen, [118]
• Cotopaxi, [295]
• Countess of Dublin, [98]
• Countess of Erne, [119]
• Countess of Strathmore, [214]
• Courier, [113]
• Craster Hall, [348]
• Crœsus, [233]
• Cuckoo, H.M.S., [110]
• Culloden, [106]
• Curaçoa, [133]
• Cuzco, [264], [295]
• Cyclops, [316]
• Cygnus, [112]
• Cymba, [99]
• Dakota, [248]
• Damascus, [296]
• Dane, [183]
• Daniel Drew, [51]
• Dantzig, [319]
• Dasher, H.M.S., [110]
• De Witt Clinton, [45], [46]
• Dee, [262]
• Defiance, [69]
• Delaware, [340]
• Delcomyn, [297]
• Delta, [260]
• Demologos, [35]
• Destroyer, [339]
• Deutschland, [305]
• Devastation, [333]
• Devonshire, [97]
• Diana, [115]
• Dieppe, [107], [109]
• Dispatch, [113]
• Dominion, H.M.S., [358]
• Doncaster, [207]
• Donegal, [121]
• Dora, [93]
• Douglas, [90], [93]
• Douro, [263]
• Dover, [105], [317]
• Dreadnought, [309], [315], [335]
• Drottning Victoria, [365]
• Duchess of Albany, [116]
• Duchess of Buccleuch, [96]
• Duchess of Connaught, [116]
• Duchess of Devonshire, [96], [121]
• Duchess of Edinburgh, [116]
• Duchess of Fife, [116]
• Duchess of Kent, [116]
• Duchess of Sutherland, [119]
• Duchess of York, [106]
• Duke of Cornwall, [97]
• Duke of Sutherland, [119]
• Duke of Wellington, [272]
• Dumbarton Castle, [70]
• Dumfries, [113]
• Duncannon, [75]
• Dundee, [87]
• Dwarf, [313]
• Eagle, [376]
• Earl Grey, [370]
• Earl of Hardwicke, [167]
• Earl of Liverpool, [82]
• Earl Spencer, [120]
• Echo, [176]
• Echunga, [347]
• Eclipse, [54]
• Eden, [309], [335]
• Edinburgh, [240]
• Edith, [119], [172], [328]
• Egypt, [293]
• Eleanor, [120]
• Elizabeth, [64]
• Ella, [115], [116]
• Ellan Vannin, [91]
• Empire, [48]
• Empire of Troy, [48]
• Empress, [105]
• Empress of Russia, [35]
• Empress Queen, [93]
• Encounter, H.M.S., [314]
• Endeavour, [201]
• Enterprise, [43], [165]-[166], [306]
• Ericsson, [384]
• Erin, [254]
• Ermack, [367], [368], [369]
• Esk, [262]
• Etna, [45]
• Etruria, [281], [282]
• Europa, [152], [245]
• Excellent, [325]
• Experiment, [328]
• Express, [113]
• F. P. Smith, [216]
• Faid Gihaad, [372]
• Fairy, [371]
• Falcon, [165]
• Falken, [373]
• Fannie, [115]
• Far East, [265]
• Fenella, [92]
• Firebrand, [176]
• Firefly, [35], [41], [44], [45]
• Flora, [325]
• Florida, [288]
• Forth, [191]
• Foyle, [98]
• Francis B. Ogden, [218]
• Franklin, [43], [154]
• Frederica, [116]
• Frolic, [96]
• Fulton, [35], [41], [154]
• Gaelic, [253]
• Galtee-More, [120]
• Garonne, [264], [295]
• Garry Owen, [196], [221]
• Gascony, [349]
• Gemini, [376]
• General Admiral Apraxine, [368]
• George Canning, [74]
• George Washington, [304]
• Georgia, [188]
• Germanic, [253]
• Geyser, [313]
• Glasgow, [86], [240]
• Glatton, [334]
• Glen Cove, [50]
• Gloire, [320]
• Gorgon, [316]
• Grace, [106]
• Grand Turk, [111]
• Great Britain, [217], [221], [256], [271]
• Great Eastern, [193], [230], [241], [268]-[278], [284], [288]
• Great Liverpool, [178]
• Great Western, [138], [141]-[144], [145], [147]-[148], [150], [169], [220], [238], [271]
• Greenock, [88], [318]
• Griffin, [115]
• Guadeloupe, [316]
• Guernsey, [116]
• Hansa, [301]
• Havre, [113], [114]
• Hazard, [331]
• Hebe, [315], [327]
• Helvetia, [254]
• Hendrick Hudson, [48], [49]
• Henry Bell, [73], [88], [100]
• Henry Clay, [170]
• Her Majesty, [232]
• Herald, [96]
• Hercules, [315], [332]
• Hermann, [154]
• Hermes, [176]
• Hibernia, [71], [102], [104], [120], [151]
• Hilda, [115], [116]
• Himalaya, [180], [260], [271]
• Hindostan, [179]
• Hohenzollern, [371]
• Ho-Nam, [206]
• Honfleur, [108], [116]
• Hope, [36], [38], [39], [45], [69], [107]
• Howe, [315]
• Hudson, [300]
• Hugh Lindsay, [166]
• Humber, [64]
• Humboldt, [154]
• Iberia, [177]
• Idaho, [248]
• Immacolata Concezione, [372]
• Immingham, [118]
• Inconstant, [315], [333]
• Independencia, [315]
• Indian, [254]
• Indian Empire, [162]
• Industry, [66]
• Invincible, [336]
• Iolanda, [375]
• Irishman, [100], [101]
• Iroquois, [351]
• Isa, [306]
• Isabella, [120]
• Italy, [109], [254]
• Ivernia, [283]
• James Joicey, [307]
• James Watt, [81], [100]
• Jerome Napoleon, [373]
• John Bowes, [211], [213]
• John Elder, [264]
• John W. Richmond, [46]
• Jumna, [202]
• Kaiser Wilhelm II., [287], [305]
• Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse, [304], [305]
• Kaiserin Auguste Victoria, [305]
• Kangaroo, [239]
• Karamea, [298]
• Kate, [327]
• Kearsarge, [176], [340]
• Kentucky, [340]
• King Edward, [309]
• King Orry, [89], [92]
• Kingfisher, [83]
• Kite, [124]
• Koenig Wilhelm, [333]
• Koenig Wilhelm II., [305]
• Kronprinz Wilhelm, [305]
• Kronprinzessin Cecilie, [305]
• La France, [259]
• La Plata, [262]
• Lady de Saumarez, [110]
• Lady Derby, [233]
• Lady Eglinton, [98], [245]
• Lady Grey, [369]
• Lady Hudson-Kinahan, [99]
• Lady Martin, [99]
• Lady Olive, [99]
• Lady Roberts, [99]
• Lady Wodehouse, [98]
• Lady Wolseley, [99]
• Ladybird, [107]
• Lancashire Witch, [96]
• Larriston, [245]
• Laura, [116]
• Laurentic, [289]
• Le Nord, [105]
• Leinster, [204]
• Leven, [72]
• Leviathan, [270], [276]
• Lewis, [155]
• Lexington, [45], [46]
• Liffey, [73]
• Lightning, [264], [311], [336]
• Lily, [119]
• Lima, [229]
• Livadia, [373]
• Liverpool, [145]
• London, [87]
• Londonderry, [121]
• Lord Beresford, [110]
• Lord Nelson, [335]
• Lord W. Bentinck, [202]
• Lord Warden, [105]
• Louisa Ann Fanny, [267]
• Louisiana, [175], [254]
• Lucania, [282]
• Lusitania (Cunard Co.), [279], [282], [309]
• Lusitania (Orient Line), [264], [294]
• Ly-ee-moon, [203]
• Lydia, [116]
• Lymington, [116]
• Lyons, [107], [109]
• Ma Robert, [279]
• Mabel, [106]
• Macedonia, [293]
• Madagascar, [183]
• Magenta, [330]
• Majestic, [69], [96], [287]
• Malvina, [245]
• Malwa, [293]
• Manhattan, [247]
• Mantua, [292]
• Manx Queen, [96]
• Manxman, [121]
• Marathon, [297]
• Marco, [107]
• Margaret and Jessie, [90]
• Marie Henriette, [309]
• Margery, [66], [69]
• Marmora, [293]
• Mars, [98]
• Mary, [114],
• Mary Augusta, [259]
• Mary Powell, [50]
• Marylebone, [118]
• Massachusetts, [170]-[172]
• Masterful, [100]
• Mauretania, [279], [282], [309]
• Medusa, [316]
• Megantic, [289]
• Megna, [202]
• Mermaid, [97], [313]
• Merrimac, [248], [329]
• Mersey, [73], [331]
• Messenger, [176]
• Meteor, [176]
• Meteor, H.M.S., [110]
• Midland Prince, [55]
• William M. Mills, [52]
• Miltiades, [296], [297]
• Milwaukee, [300]
• Minas Geraes, [338]
• Minnesota, [248]
• Minotaur, H.M.S., [315], [332], [333]
• Minx, H.M.S., [314]
• Miramar, [373]
• Missouri, [340]
• Mohawk, [336]
• Moldavia, [293]
• Mona, [88], [89], [92], [93]
• Monarch, [82], [83], [110]
• Mona’s Isle, [87], [88], [91], [92], [94], [95], [150]
• Mona’s Queen, [90], [93]
• Mongolia, [293]
• Monitor, [329]
• Monitoria, [349]
• Monkey, [311]
• Montana, [248]
• Mooltan, [261], [293]
• Morea, [293]
• C. W. Morse, [48]
• Moselle, [53]
• Munster, [204]
• Mute, [35]
• Narragansett, [45]
• Natchez, [54]
• Navahoe, [351]
• Nebraska, [248]
• Nemesis, [316]
• Neptune, [315]
• Nevada, [248]
• New Jersey, [219]
• New Orleans, [35], [42]
• Newhaven, [109]
• Niagara, [152], [245]
• Nicholai, [169]
• Nicolaieff, [363]
• Niger, [313]
• Nile, [98]
• Nimrod, [316]
• Nitocris, [316]
• Nix, [319]
• Norfolk, [300]
• Norman, [183]
• Normandy, [109], [113], [114]
• North American, [255]
• North Carolina, [340]
• North River, [35], [36], [41]
• Northampton, [315]
• Northman, [100]
• Northumberland, [315]
• Norwich, [49]
• Nottingham, [97]
• Novelty, [217]
• Oberon, [351]
• Ocean, [140]
• Oceanic, [252], [287], [288]
• Ogden, Francis B., [218]
• Ohio, [188]
• Old Colony, [47]
• Olive Branch, [35], [43]
• Olympic, [289]
• Ontario, [53]
• Oregon, [48], [49], [188], [250], [282]
• Orient, [295]
• Oriental, [178]
• Orlando, [315]
• Orleans, [107]
• Oroonoko, [53]
• Orvieto, [292]
• Oscar, [64]
• Osterley, [292]
• Otaki, [310]
• Otranto, [292]
• Pacific, [157], [161], [188], [204], [264]
• Pakeha, [298]
• Pallas, [266], [331]
• Pallion, [349]
• Paragon, [35], [41], [44]
• Paris, [107], [108], [109]
• Parisian, [281]
• Pas de Calais, [105]
• Patriarch, [296]
• Patricia, [305]
• Paul Paix, [349]
• Pawnee, [339]
• Penelope, [315]
• Pennsylvania, [254]
• Pericles, [297]
• Peru, [187]
• Perseverance, [23], [36], [38], [45]
• Persia, [243], [271], [293]
• Perth, [87]
• Peterhoff, [373]
• Peveril, [93]
• Philadelphia, [44]
• Phlegethon, [316]
• Phœnix, [29], [123], [135]
• Pilgrim, [47]
• Pioneer, [53]
• Plymouth, [47]
• Pole Star, [371]
• Powerful, [100]
• Powhatan, [45]
• President, [146]-[148], [169]
• President Grant, [305]
• President Lincoln, [305]
• Prince of Orange, [66]
• Prince of Wales, [93], [96]
• Princess Alice, [373]
• Princess Charlotte, [66]
• Princess Ena, [116]
• Princess Margaret, [116]
• Princess of Wales, [106]
• Princesse Clementine, [309]
• Princesse Elisabeth, [309]
• Prinz Heinrich, [304]
• Prinz Hendrick, [332]
• Prince Regent Luitpold, [304]
• Propeller, [162]
• Propontis, [306]
• Providence, [47]
• Puritan, [47]
• Q.E.D., [211]
• Quebec, [140]
• Queen, [105]
• Queen, The, [254], [309]
• Queen Alexandra, [309]
• Queen of the Isle, [89]
• Queen Victoria, [93], [96]
• Rainbow, [197], [280]
• Rangatira, [298]
• Rariton, [35]
• Rathmore, [120]
• Rattler, [312], [337]
• Recruit, [319]
• Regent, [70]
• Release, [174]
• Rennes, [108]
• Republic, [288]
• Rhadamanthus, [311]
• Rhaetia, [302]
• Rhenus, [269]
• Rhode Island, [90]
• Richmond, [35], [41], [43], [45]
• Richmond, John W., [46]
• Rising Empire, [186]
• Rising Star (or Sun), [126]-[133]
• Rob Roy, [72]
• Robert Bruce, [96]
• Robert Burns, [111]
• Robert F. Stockton, [218]
• Robert Fulton, [44], [51]
• Roodezee, [361]
• Rose (Dublin), [97], [98]
• Rose (L. & N.W.R.), [119]
• Rose (Merchantman), [127]
• Rosstrevor, [120]
• Rothesay Castle, [106]
• Rotomahana, [281]
• Rouen, [107]
• Rowan, [101]
• Royal George, [83]
• Royal Tar, [176]
• Royal William (Canadian), [134], [136]
• Royal William (Dublin Co.), [144]
• Ruahine, [186], [292]
• Rugia, [302]
• Russia, [241], [246]
• Safa-el-bahr, [374]
• St. George, [72], [94], [95]
• St. John, [48]
• St. Louis, [291]
• St. Malo, [113]
• St. Patrick, [72]
• St. Paul, [291]
• Salamander, [307], [312], [319], [320]
• Sampo, [369]
• Sans Pareil, H.M.S., [358]
• Sapphire, [335]
• Sarah Sands, [231], [235]
• Satsuma, [335]
• Saturnia, [255]
• Savannah, [30], [122]-[126], [136], [199]
• Scotia, [104], [120], [246], [369]
• Sea-Horse, [72]
• Sea King, [173]
• Sea Swallow, [327]
• Seraing, [321]
• Sexta, [306]
• Shamrock, [97], [119]
• Shannon, [97], [262]
• Sharkie, [372]
• Shenandoah, [170], [174], [175], [194]
• Sirius, [138]-[144]
• Smith, F. P., [216]
• Snaefell, [91], [92]
• Solent, [116]
• Sophia Jane, [94]
• Sorata, [295]
• South-Western, [113], [116]
• Southampton, [113], [114], [115], [116]
• Sprague, [199]
• Spreewald, [305]
• Standart, [371]
• Stanley, [119]
• Stella, [116]
• Stockton, Robert F., [218]
• Suevic, [300]
• Sultan, [314], [315]
• Superb, [96]
• Sussex, [109]
• Swan of the Exe, [383]
• Swift, [73]
• Syren, [300]
• Talbot, [72]
• Tartar, [336]
• Tasmanian, [184]
• Taureau, [329]
• Tay, [64]
• Telica, [187]
• Terror, [334]
• Teucer, [346]
• Teutonic, [287]
• Thames, [66], [86], [191], [202]
• Theodor, [247]
• Thermopylæ, [296]
• Thetis, [166], [319]
• Thor, [348]
• The Three Brothers, [173]
• Thunder, [264]
• Thunderer, [333]
• Titanic, [289]
• Toronto, [218]
• Town of Liverpool, [73]
• Transit, [111]
• Transporter, [301]
• Trent, [262], [277]
• Trident, [82], [83], [317]
• Trinculo, [351]
• Trouville, [109]
• Trusty, [331]
• Turbinia, [308]
• Tynwald, [89], [90], [93]
• Ulster, [204]
• Ultonia, [283]
• Umbria, [281], [282]
• Unicorn, [151]
• Union, [45]
• United Kingdom, [134]
• Valetta, [260]
• Vandalia, [52]
• Vanderbilt, [172]
• C. Vanderbilt, [49]
• Velox, [309]
• Vera, [116]
• Vernon, [167], [169]
• Vesta, [159]
• Vesuvius, [35], [45]
• Viceroy, [162]
• Victoria, [105], [109], [116], [263], [269], [319]
• Victoria and Albert, [314], [371]
• Victorian, [281], [309]
• Viking, [93]
• Violet, [119]
• Viper, [308], [323]
• Virginia, [254], [340]
• Virginian, [281], [309]
• Vixen, [323]
• Vulcan, [195]
• Waldensian, [183]
• Walk in the Water, [51]
• Waratah, [297]
• Warrior, [315], [320], [333]
• Washington, [35], [154]
• Waterloo, [72]
• Watersprite, [111]
• Waterwitch, [96], [208], [321]
• Watt, [140]
• Wave Queen, [107]
• Waveney, [335]
• Waverley, [114], [115]
• Wellington, [167]
• Weser, [302], [319]
• West Virginia, [340]
• Wildfire, H.M.S., [110]
• William Cutting, [44], [45]
• William Fawcett, [111]
• William Hutt, [214]
• William M. Mills, [52]
• William the Fourth, [95]
• Wilmington, [340]
• Winans, [380]
• Winchester, [374]
• Wisconsin, [248]
• Wolf, [115], [116]
• Wonder, [112], [113]
• Wyoming, [248]
• Ysabel Secunda, [135]
• Zambesi, [294]
• Zwartezee, [361]
• Shire Line, [300]
• Shoreham Harbour, [106]
• Shorter, Capt., [207]
• Siemens-Martin steel process, [280]
• Sierra Leone-West Indies service, [261]
• Simonson of New York, [173]
• Slidell, Mr., [262]
• Sligo Steam Navigation Co., [101]
• Smack, journey by, Scotland to London, [85]
• Smeaton, John, [86]
• Smith, Caleb, of Liverpool, [177]
• Smith, Sir Francis Pettit, [215]
• Smith, Capt. George, [79]
• Smith, Junius (or Julius), [138]
• Smith, Capt. “Target,” and twin screws, [325]
• Smith’s Dock, North Shields, [351]
• Smith’s screw propeller, [222], [245]
• Société des Forges et Chantiers, Havre, [109]
• South African trade, [183]
• South America, Pacific Coast trade, [187]; service with England, [191]
• South American States, ingratitude of, [127]
• South-Eastern and Chatham Railway Co.’s steamboats, [105]; complain of L.B. & S.C.R. Co., [106]; first railway to order turbine steamer, [309]
• South Kensington Science Museum, exhibits in: Symington’s engine, [59]; model of the Charlotte Dundas, [61]; engines of the Comet, [64]
• South of England Steam Navigation Co., [110], [111]
• Southampton-Channel Islands service, [110]
• Southampton-Havre and Honfleur service, [109], [110]
• Southampton-Morlaix service, [111]
• Southampton-St. Malo service, [113], [115]
• Southampton-South Pacific ports, [191]
• South-Western Steam Packet Co., [111], [112]
• Spain, steamers to, [176]
• Spanish-American War, sailing vessel in, [174]; auxiliary cruisers, [291]
• Spanish Government purchase Royal William, [135]
• Spanish Navy and Chilian Revolution, [127]
• Speed of early steamboats, [24], [33]
• Stainton, Joseph, [57]
• Stanhope, Lord, and Fulton’s inventions, [27]
• State Line, [253]
• Steam auxiliary to sailing, development of, [164]-[192]
• Steamboat companies and railways, competition in America, [45]
• Steamboat, Fulton’s, impressions of, [32], [33], [34]
• Steam condensation, [200]
• Steam-engines: steam experiment of Hero of Alexandria (120 B.C.), [9]; of Giovanni Branca, [9]; of the Marquis of Worcester, [9]; of Blasco de Garay, [10]; of Salomon de Caus, [10]; of Dr. Denis Papin, [11]; of Thomas Savery, [11]; of Jonathan Hulls, [12]; of Jouffroy d’Abbans, [15]; of James Rumsay, [20]; of John Fitch, [21]; of Robert Fulton, [31]; Symington the inventor of the marine engine, [56]; his engine, [58]; first horizontal direct-acting engine, [59]; Bell’s engines, [62]; Robertson’s engines, [62], [64]; Napier’s engines, [72]; side-lever type, [72]. See also [Engines]
• Steam-frigates, [315]
• Steam-heating of ships introduced, [157]
• Steam-pressures, [307]
• Steam-ship companies’ antagonism to railway-owned vessels, [104]
• Steam-ships, competition between sailers and steamers, [44]; increase from 1820, [75]; British ships in 1838, [77]; change of ownership and renaming, [78]; first to fire a gun in war, [135]; development and progress, [259]; Lloyd’s summary quoted for size of large vessels, [291]-[393]; repairs to ships, [300]; built in halves, [301]; first in the Royal Navy, [311]; eccentric designs, [375 et seq.]; future development, [387]
• Steel, Messrs., of Greenock, ships built by, [134], [151], [157]
• Steel ships, the building of, [279]-[310]; first steel steamer, [279]; first ocean steamer, [281];
• Steel, toughened, [243]
• Steering-gear, steam, [109], [241]
• Steering screw-propelled vessels, [220]
• Steers, Mr. George, [158], [161]
• Stern-wheelers, [15]
• Sterns, rounded, [158]
• Stettin, Vulcan Shipbuilding, &c., Works at, and shipbuilding, [302]; floating dock, [353]
• Stevens, Col. John, constructs a steamboat, [25]; and screw-propellers, [29], [192], [207]-[210]; and stiffeners for sagging hulls, [46], [194]
• Stevens, Robert, [29]
• Stevens, Robert Livingston, [30], [44]
• Stevens Institute, Hoboken, original screw-engine at, [209]
• Stockton, Commodore Robert F., [219]
• Sturdee, Mr. John, [326]
• Submarines, Fulton’s, experiments with, [24], [26]; early submarines, [375]; transport of Japanese submarines, [301]
• Suez, Isthmus of, passage of the, [179]
• Suez-Bombay service of the East India Co., [180]
• Suez Canal, opening of, [181]; mails carried via, [182]; limits size of vessels, [291]
• Suez route to India, [164 et seq.]
• Swan, Hunter, and Wigham Richardson, Ltd., [283], [365]
• Swan-shaped yacht, [383]
• Swedish State Railways ferry across the Baltic, [365]
• Sydney-Melbourne mail, [107]
• Symington, William, of Falkirk, and Fulton, [28]; builds first British steamer, [56]; his engine, [58], [59]
• Tank steamers, [348], [351]
• Taylor and Davies’ engine, [313]
• Taylor, James, of Cumnock, [58]
• Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Co., [246]
• Tetrahedral principle of construction, [388]
• Thames, the, first steam-vessel to enter, [66]; first built on, [69]; shipbuilding on the, [233]-[234]
• Thames Iron Works and Shipbuilding Co., [203], [233], [260], [322], [333], [371], [372], [377]
• Thames passenger steamers, overcrowding, [79]; rivalry of companies, [80]; ferry-steamers, [367]. See also [London]
• Thames Steamboat Co., [367]
• Thompson’s (George, & Co.) Aberdeen Line, [296]
• Thomson, J. & G., [254], [281]
• Thorneycroft, Messrs., Thames Works, [234]; jet-propelling lifeboats, [324]; torpedo boats, [336]
• Tobin, Sir John, [145]
• Tod and McGregor, [237], [239], [240]
• Torpedo, Fulton and the, [26]
• Torpedo boats, [336]
• Towing. See [Tugboats]
• “Tramp” steamers, [343]
• Transasiatic railway ferry, [365]
• Transatlantic Co., [138]
• Transatlantic steam service, the beginnings of, [98], [122]-[148]; first steamer to cross, [122]; sail with steam auxiliary, [122]; first crossing from West, [134]; Canadian claims, [135]; early steam voyages, [138]-[144]
• “Trent Affair, the,” [262], [277]
• Trevithick, Richard, and iron ships, [195]
• Triple-hulled boats, [388]
• Tsushima, Battle of, [335], [339]
• Tubular vessels, [235]
• Tugboats, [341]-[342]; the first steam tug, [69]
• Turbine-driven steamers, [281], [307]-[309]; first on the Thames, [83]; turbines of the Dreadnought, [335]
• Turret steamers, [345]
• Turrets, [329], [340]
• Twin screws. See [Screw]
• Twin steamers, [376]-[379]
• Tyne, the, iron screw steamers built on, [215]; the ferries, [366]
• Union Co. (London-Leith), [84]
• Union Line founded, [182]; vessels as transports, Crimean War, [183]; Brazil and South African trade, [183]
• Union Steamship Co. of New Zealand, [281]
• United States, first iron vessels for the, [193]; U.S. mails and American vessels, [153]. See also [America], [Transatlantic]
• Vail, Stephen, [123]
• Valentia, [137]
• Valentia Transatlantic Steam Navigation Co., [137]
• Valparaiso-Cobija steamers, [186]
• Valparaiso-Panama service, [187]
• Valturius’ “De Re Militari,” [4]
• Vanderbilt, Commodore, [173]
• Vickers, Sons & Maxim, [301], [369]; new battleship, [340]
• Victoria, Queen, first steam-ship journey, [82]; visit to Isle of Man, [90]; royal yachts, [371]
• Victoria floating dock, [363]
• Volga, River, ferry, [364]
• Waddell, James Tredell, career of, [174]-[175]
• Waghorn, Thos., Bengal pilot, and Suez route to India, [166]-[167]
• Wagstaff, [162]
• Walliker, Mr. J. F., on engines, [306]
• Wallis’s yard, [82]
• Wallsend, floating docks built at, [357], [361], [362]
• Wallsend Slipway and Engineering Co., Ltd., engines by, [285]
• Walpole, Webb, and Bewley, Messrs., Dublin, [98]
• Ward, Mr. John, [194]; on the evolution of the steam-ship, [228]
• Warships, construction of, [336]; British-built for foreign Powers, [338]; of the future, [340]; Wooden v. iron, [329]
• Water-ballast, [212], [347]
• Waterford Commercial Steam Navigation Co., [74]
• Waterford trade, [75]
• Watermen and Lightermen, Worshipful Co. of, [79]
• Watson, Colin, [64], [65]
• Watt, George, [58]
• Watt, James, and Ogden’s engine, [219]
• Watt, James, the younger, and reversing machinery, [70]
• Watt, James, & Co., engines for Pacific, [205]; engines for Great Eastern, [276]
• Watt’s, James, steam-engine, [86]
• Wave-line theory of construction, [236], [316]
• Webb, William H., American shipbuilder, [47]
• Weir, Robert, [57]
• Weld, Mr. and Mrs., [68]
• Welland Canal, [52]
• West Indian fruit trade, [299]
• West Indies, R.M.S.P. Co.’s service, [189]
• Westervelt and Mackay, Messrs., [154]
• Weymouth and Channel Islands Steam Packet Co., [112]
• Weymouth-Channel Islands service, [110], [112]
• “Whalebacks,” [55]
• Wheel-boats, early, [2], [4]
• Wheelwright, Wm., [186]
• White, J. Samuel, Cowes, [336]
• White, Mr. Thomas, West Cowes, [111]
• White, Sir William H., on the Great Eastern, quoted, [278]
• White Star-Dominion Line and Canadian trade, [289]
• White Star Line, [241], [251]-[253], [287]-[290]
• Wigram and Green, Messrs., [81]
• Wilkinson, J., and iron barge, [195]
• Williams, Mr. C. W., Dublin, [72]
• Williamson, Capt., and turbine boat, [308]
• Wilson, (“Frigate Wilson”), of Liverpool, [72], [100], [144]
• Wilson, of London, engines by, [306]
• Wilson, Thomas, shipbuilder, [195]
• Wimshurst, Mr., Blackwall, [217]
• Winans’ cigar ship, [380]
• Wireless telegraphy, [121], [288]
• Wood, C., shipbuilder, [151]
• Wood, James, & Co., Messrs., of Port Glasgow, [81]
• Wood, John, & Co., of Glasgow, [62], [87], [151]
• Wood construction of steam-ships, [191], [193]
• Wooden ships, length of, [193]; sagging hulls, [46], [194]
• Worcester, Marquis of, “Century of Inventions,” [9]
• Workman & Clark, Messrs., Belfast, [99]
• Yachts, auxiliary power in, [371]; steam-yachts, [371]; royal yachts, [371]-[374]; private yachts, [374]-[375]
• Yarrow & Co., Messrs., [234], [374]
• Yarrow boilers, [388]
• Zoelly turbine, [307]

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SAILING SHIPS

THE STORY OF THEIR DEVELOPMENT FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO THE PRESENT DAY

By E. KEBLE CHATTERTON