Steam-ships

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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