Steamships and Their Story
by E. Keble Chatterton
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About this eBook
- Author
- Chatterton, E. Keble (Edward Keble), 1878-1944
- Title
- Steamships and their story
- Original Publication
- London: Cassell and company, ltd., 1910.
- Credits
- Peter Becker, Charlie Howard, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- VM: Naval science: Naval architecture, Shipbuilding, Marine engineering
- Subject
- Steamboats
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 72045
- Release Date
- November 5, 2023
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.STEAMSHIPS AND THEIR STORY
- 2.PREFACE
- 3.CONTENTS
- 4.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- 5.STEAMSHIPS AND THEIR STORY — CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION
- 6.CHAPTER II THE EVOLUTION OF MECHANICALLY-PROPELLED CRAFT
- 7.CHAPTER III THE EARLY PASSENGER STEAMSHIPS
- 8.CHAPTER IV THE INAUGURATION OF THE LINER
- 9.CHAPTER V THE LINER IN HER TRANSITION STATE
- 10.CHAPTER VI THE COMING OF THE TWIN-SCREW STEAMSHIP
- 11.CHAPTER VII THE MODERN MAMMOTH STEAMSHIP
- 12.CHAPTER VIII SMALLER OCEAN CARRIERS AND CROSS-CHANNEL STEAMERS
- 13.CHAPTER IX STEAMSHIPS FOR SPECIAL PURPOSES
- 14.CHAPTER X THE STEAM YACHT
- 15.CHAPTER XI THE BUILDING OF THE STEAMSHIP
- 16.CHAPTER XII THE SAFETY AND LUXURY OF THE PASSENGER
- 17.CHAPTER XIII SOME STEAMSHIP PROBLEMS
- 18.INDEX — Transcriber’s Notes
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