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to Australia, 254.
Paddle-steamer, high-water mark of, 31.
Paddle-wheel compared with screw, 79.
when necessary, 80.
Panama, 283.
Parker, Mr., his comparison of triple expansion engines with ordinary ones, 39.
Passenger capacity of the early steamships, 114.
accommodations then, 119.
and now, 127.
Passenger lists, 131.
Passengers, cabin, statistics of, 133.
Pearce, Sir William, of the Fairfield ship-yard, 110.
Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company, the, 23, 260.
an imaginary trip by, 260.
Persia, the, description of, 31.
Plimsoll, Samuel, 251.
Polyphemus, H.B.M.S., 59.
Princeton, the, description of, 23.
Propellers, failure of, internal, 83.
material of, 214.
Puritan, the, 71.
Quarantine regulations, 142.
Quartermasters, duties of, 164.
Randolph Elder & Co. See Elder, John, & Co.
Red Sea, the passage through, 269.
Refrigerators on steamships, 232.
Rio Janeiro, 288.
Ruthven’s hydraulic propeller, 83.
Saale, the, 40.
Said, Port, harbor of, 263, 266.
traffic of, 269.
Sailors, on a steamship, 165, et seq.
messes of, 174.
Savannah, the first steamship to cross the ocean, 8.
Scotia, the, 31, 32, 73.
Screw propeller, used by Ericsson, 16.
invented or proposed by others, 17, et seq.
early prejudice against, 79.
compared with paddle-wheel, 79.
twin screws, 43, 80, 209, 212.
triple screws, 80.
form and nature of, 84.
instances of change of form, 85.
Scythia, the, 35.
Servia, the, largest mail brought by her, 231.
Shaft, breaking of a steamer’s, 210.
Shanghai, 280.
Shaw, Savill & Albion Company, the, 292.
Ship, investigations into the resistance of a, in motion, 46, 63.
Ships, forms of, how judged of, 62.
life of, 55.
speed of, visionary schemes to increase, 58.
the speed of, primary conditions for, 61.
Singapore, 276.
Sirius, the, first steamer to cross from Europe to New York, 11, 112.
Skin of ship, frictional resistance of, 46, 86.
Smith, Thomas Pettit, invents a screw propeller, 17, 18.
Sorting mails on shipboard, 231.
South Stack lighthouse, 194.
Sovereign of the Seas, the, quick run of, 254.
Specie-room on a steamship, 231.
Speed of ship, schemes to increase, 58.
conditions for, 61.
increases safety, 204.
Standard Oil Co., the, tank steamers of, 245.
“Steam lanes,” 215.
Steamboat had at first the greatest use in America, 4, 28.
Steamship, a first-class, cost of, 92.
construction of, first stages, 97, et seq.
variability of results in its construction, 93.
lines, number and statistics of, 135, et seq.
records of fast trips of, 130.
passenger, table fare of, 136.
incoming, how signalled, 142.
hauling out a, 149.
expert seamanship required to manage a, 150.
officers, junior, 163.
fire drill on, 154.
care of, at sea, 159.
crew of, 165.
inspection of, 170.
travel, perils of, 186, et seq.
wrecked, list of, 195, et seq.
burned at sea, 197.
speed of increases safety, 204.
safety of, 205, et seq.
freight and passenger, 217.
Steamships, the fastest, cost of, 218.
list of transatlantic, 219.
routes long, first established by Boston merchants, 253; to India, China, and Australia, list of, 266; traffic main of, 256.
number and nationality of, 256.
lines of transatlantic, 259.
between Europe and the East, 260.
Steel, use of, in naval construction, 54.
industry in the United States, 56, 86.
Steerage passengers, fare of, 143.
inspection of, 144.
Steering gear, steam, 164.
Stevens, Mr., of Hoboken, experiments of, with the screw propeller, 18.
return tubular boilers built by, 33.
Stockton, Commodore Robert F., orders screw boats of Ericsson, 17.
Stoke-hole of a steamship, 171.
Stokers, at work, 172.
their quarters, 175.
Suez Canal, passage of, 269.
Sunday on steamship, 142.
Tank steamers, 243, et seq.
Tapscott’s line, 213.
Teutonic, breaks the record, 44, 129, 229.
tonnage of, 230.
Thomas Powell, the, 34.
Tonnage of the United States in 1829 and subsequently, 7.
of London and Liverpool, 8.
of foreign and domestic ships in 1890, 223.
steam, in the United States and Great Britain, 53.
Tow-boats, statistics of, 223.
Tramp steamships, tonnage of, in 1890-91, 223.
description of, 234.
Trave, the, 40.
largest mail carried by her, 230.
Travel, transatlantic, increasing, 134.
Trevithick opposed by Watt, 77.
Triple-expansion engines, the first, 39.
Tripoli, Cunard steamer, loss of, 195.
Twin screws, 43.
safety secured by the system of, 209.
steamers having, 212.
Unicorn, the, first steamship to enter Boston from Europe, 118.
Union Steamship Company, the, 292.
United States and Brazil Mail Steamship Company, 289.
Valparaiso, 284.
Vanderbilt, Commodore, starts a line of transatlantic steamers, 124.
Ville du Havre, loss of, 197.
Water, resistance of, to a moving vessel, 46, 48, 63.
Waterwitch, the, experiments with, 83.
Watt, proposes a spiral oar, 17.
his prejudice against steam applied to marine propulsion, 77.
Wave-action in the case of ships at full speed, 46, et seq.
Waves produced by a ship in motion, 47, 61.
West Indies, steamship lines touching at, 290.
“Whaleback” steamer, description of, 234.
Wheelwright, William, the instigator of Pacific Steam Navigation Co., 23.
White Star line, establishment of, 25.
build a new type of ship, 35.
conveniences for passengers in, 126.
the freight capacity of the largest ships of, 218.
influence of, on ocean navigation, 230.
Williams & Guion. See Guion line.
Wilson line, the, as freight carriers, 219.
Wilson, Thomas, builds the first iron vessel, 14.
World, a trip round the, 256, et seq.
Wrecked steamships, list of, 195, et seq.
Wyckoff, Chevalier, a passenger on the Sirius’s return voyage, 117.
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