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Title: Steam-ships

The story of their development to the present day

Author: R. A. Fletcher

Illustrator: Charles Dixon

Release date: January 31, 2024 [eBook #72847]

Language: English

Original publication: United Kingdom: Sidgwick & Jackson, Ltd, 1910

Credits: Peter Becker, Harry Lamé and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

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Please see the Transcriber’s Notes at the end of this text.

STEAM-SHIPS

UNIFORM WITH THIS VOLUME

Capital S

SAILING SHIPS:

THE STORY OF THEIR DEVELOPMENT FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO THE PRESENT DAY

BY
E. KEBLE CHATTERTON

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On the Left is a Bomb Ketch, a Type withdrawn from the Navy about this Date.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.