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