The History of North Atlantic Steam Navigation: With Some Account of Early Ships and ShipownersS. Low, Marston, 1896 - 324 pages |
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The History of North Atlantic Steam Navigation: With Some Account of Early ... Henry Fry Affichage du livre entier - 1896 |
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The History of North Atlantic Steam Navigation: With Some Account of Early ... Henry Fry Affichage du livre entier - 1896 |
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2nd cabin accident afterwards Allan American April Atlantic average speed Barrow-in-Furness Belfast boilers Boston Bremen Bristol Britain British built bulkhead Cabot Campania Canadian cargo carried cent Circassia Clyde collision compartments compound engines contract crew Cunard Company Cunard Line cylinders deck Depreciation diameter Dominion England Etruria feet stroke fitted fleet France freight fund Glasgow Government Greenock Guion H.P. nominal Halifax Hamburg Hamburg-American Harland Harland & Wolff Havre hull inches Inman Inman Line iron Lake launched Liverpool London Lucania mails Majestic merchant Messrs miles minutes Montreal North German Lloyd ocean paddle passage port profit propeller Quebec Queenstown sailing ships saloon Sandy Hook screw steamships seamen shaft shipbuilding shipowners Southampton state-rooms steam navigation steamers Steamship Company steel steerage steerage passengers sterling subsidy Teutonic tonnage tons gross towed trade trial trip twin screws Umbria United vessels voyage White Star Line wrecked York
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Page 274 - Shall I not visit for these things? saith the Lord: and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
Page 8 - ... to sail to all parts, countries, and seas of the east, of the west, and of the north...
Page v - Then they cry unto the LORD in their trouble, And HE bringeth them out of their distresses. HE maketh the storm a calm, So that the waves thereof are still. Then are they glad because they be quiet ; So HE bringeth them unto their desired haven.
Page 38 - As to the project, however, which was announced in the newspapers, of making the voyage directly from New York to Liverpool, it was, he had no hesitation in saying, perfectly chimerical; and they might as well talk of making a voyage from New York or Liverpool to the moon.
Page v - They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters; These see the works of the LORD, and his wonders in the deep.
Page 9 - Cham ; he coasted for three hundred leagues and landed ; saw no human beings, but he has brought hither to the king certain snares which had been set to catch game, and a needle for making nets ; he also found some felled trees, wherefore he supposed there were inhabitants, and returned to his ship in alarm.
Page 3 - For the king's ships went to Tarshish with the servants of Huram : every three years once came the ships of Tarshish bringing gold, and silver, '" ivory, and apes, and peacocks.
Page 10 - Prima vista, that is to say, first scene; because, as I suppose, it was that part whereof they had the first sight from sea. That island which lieth out before the land he called the Island of St John upon this occasion, as I thinke, because it was discovered upon the day of John the Baptist.
Page 36 - Willcox & Anderson, for £10,000 sterling, and chartered to the Portuguese Government to take out troops for Don Pedro's service, and on my arrival in Lisbon offered to them for sale as a vessel of war, but rejected by their admiral, Count Cape Saint Vincent, the present admiral Sir Charles Napier.
Page 10 - The king has also given him money wherewith to amuse himself till then, and he is now at Bristol with his wife, who is also a Venetian, and with his sons; his name is Juan Cabot, and he is styled the great admiral.