ILLUSTRATIONS.[1]
| PAGE | |
| S.S. “Great Eastern” (Longitudinal Section and Scale) | Frontispiece. |
| S.S. “Great Eastern” View of Deck | Frontispiece. |
| S.S. “Great Eastern” Wheel-house and Steering Apparatus | Frontispiece. |
| S.S. “Great Eastern” Laying Cable | Frontispiece. |
| S.S. “Great Eastern” At Sea | Frontispiece. |
| The Paper Nautilus | 3 |
| Hero’s Steam Cauldron (First Idea of the Power of Steam, B.C. 120) | 5 |
| Hero’s Steam Æolipile (First Steam Machine) | 6 |
| First Vessel Propelled by Wheels (Seventh Century) | 10 |
| Illyrian Barge with Oxen driving Paddle-wheels | 19 |
| Curious Vessel built in Rotterdam, A.D. 1653 | 20 |
| First Steam-boat (by Jonathan Hulls of Campden, Gloucestershire), 1736 | 26 |
| Murray River Steamer | 27 |
| Water-wheel | 33 |
| Miller’s Treble Vessel, to which a Steam-engine was applied, 1787 | 33 |
| Sectional View of the S.S. “Charlotte Dundas” | 37 |
| First American Steam-boat by John Fitch, U.S., 1786 | 42 |
| Second American Steam-boat by John Fitch, First Used, 1790 | 44 |
| S.S. “Clermont” by Robert Fulton, U.S. First Steam-vessel used successfully in America, 1807 | 51 |
| S.S. “Comet.” First Passenger Steamer on the River Clyde, Scotland, 1812 | 66 |
| Thames Sailing Barge | 75 |
| Stationers’ Company’s Sailing Barge | 76 |
| S.S. “United Kingdom” (London and Edinburgh) | 81 |
| Galloway’s Patent Paddle-wheel | 99 |
| Different Forms of Screws | 101 |
| Screw Steamer “Robert F. Stockton” | 114 |
| Woodcroft’s Varying-pitch Screw-propeller | 117 |
| Early American Lake Screw-propeller | 133 |
| American River Steamer “New World” | 145 |
| Longitudinal and Transverse Midship Sections of proposed large American Steamer | 158, 159 |
| First Cunard Steam-ship “Britannia” | 182 |
| Steam-ship “Great Britain” | 188 |
| Auxiliary U.S. Steam-ship “Massachusetts” | 191 |
| American Steam-ship “Washington” | 196 |
| Collins’s U.S. Steam-ship “Atlantic” | 206 |
| Cunard’s Steam-ship “Scotia” | 229 |
| Cunard’s Steam-ship “Bothnia” | 233 |
| Harfield’s Steam Windlass | 234 |
| Saloon Cabins S.S. “Bothnia” and “Scythia” | 236 |
| Inman’s Screw Steam-ship “City of Manchester” | 252 |
| Inman’s Screw Steam-ship “City of Chester” | 258 |
| White Star Steam-ship “Britannic” | 278 |
| Screw-shaft of S.S. “Britannic” | 280 |
| Midship Section of “Britannic” | 281 |
| Anchor Line S.S. “Victoria” | 289 |
| Royal Mail West India S.S. “Forth” | 303 |
| Royal Mail West India S.S. “Amazon” | 306 |
| Pacific Company’s S.S. “Peru” | 319 |
| Pacific Company’s S.S. “Chimborazo” | 325 |
| Pacific Company’s S.S. “Santa-Rosa” | 328 |
| S.S. “Enterprise.” First Steamer that Doubled the Cape of Good Hope | 340 |
| Map of Suez Canal and surrounding District | 364 |
| Peninsular and Oriental Company’s S.S. “Royal Tar” | 380 |
| Peninsular and Oriental Company’s S.S. “Khedive” | 411 |
| Leyland and Company’s S.S. “Bavarian” | 420 |
| Lindsay’s Auxiliary Steam-ships | 429 |
| Swires’ Yang-tse Steamer “Hankow” | 471 |
| Chinese Tea-boat | 475 |
| Japanese Cargo-boat | 485 |
| Platform on which S.S. “Great Eastern” was built | 497 |
| Transverse Midship Section of “Great Eastern” | 498 |
| Transverse Midship Section of Engine-room of “Great Eastern” | 501 |
| Grand Saloon Cabin of “Great Eastern” | 506 |
| S.S. “Great Eastern” ready to be Launched | 517 |
| S.S. “Great Eastern” at Sea under full Sail | 527 |
| Modern Screw Collier “King Coal” | 548 |
| Channel Packet S.S. “Victoria” | 556 |
| Fowler’s proposed Channel Steam Ferry | 559 |
| Channel Packet S.S. “Castalia” | 562 |
| Channel Packet S.S. “Bessemer” | 565 |
| Perkins’ proposed Transatlantic Steam-ship | 572 |
| Transverse Midship Section of ditto | 572 |
| Engine of the First Clyde Steamer “Comet” | 574 |
| Latest and most Improved Compound Surface Marine Steam Engine | 578 |
FOOTNOTES:
[1] The whole of these Illustrations have been re-drawn on block, and a great many of them are original. It is, however, only due to the memory of a truly good and unassuming man to state, more especially as he was a thorough genius in the illustration of all nautical subjects, that many of the drawings are reduced copies from those of the late Edward Weedon, who, for many years, and up to his untimely death in 1874, was one of the staff of artists of the Illustrated London News.