Changes made
Footnotes and illustrations have been moved out of text paragraphs; some ditto signs have been replaced with the dittoed text. Page references under illustration giving the page number opposite which the illustration was printed have been deleted.
Some obvious minor typographical and punctuation errors have been corrected silently.
List of Illustrations: illustration numbers have been added. Illustrations numbers 33 (originally Kingfisher) and 34 (originally Carron) interchanged cf. the order of the illustrations in the text; ditto for numbers 44 (Cambria) and 45 (Marylebone), numbers 51 (Dieppe) and 52 (United Kingdom), and numbers 94 (Campania) and 95 (Mauretania).
Perier and Périer have been standardised to Périer.
Page 65: ... to bring up in Ramsay Bay ... has been changed to ... to bring up in Ramsey Bay ....
Page 86: ſatisfying has been changed to ſatiſfying.
Page 118: Konisberg has been changed to Königsberg.
Page 187: Miller and Ravenhall has been changed to Miller and Ravenhill.
Page 320: Dupuy de Lome has been changed to Dupuy de Lôme.