With a Coloured Frontispiece by
CHARLES DIXON
and over 130 Illustrations from Original Sources,
Photographs, Models, &c.
Extra Royal 8vo, 384 pages, in Designed Cover,
Cloth Gilt, 16s. net
The “William Fawcett,” the First P. & O. Steam-ship, 209 Tons, Built 1829.
On the Left is a Bomb Ketch, a Type withdrawn from the Navy about this Date.
On the Right is H. M. S. “St. Vincent,” 101 Guns.
From a Painting by Charles Dixon
By kind permission of the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Co.
STEAM-SHIPS
THE STORY OF THEIR DEVELOPMENT
TO THE PRESENT DAY