ILLUSTRATIONS.[1]

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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.