Rapidly the chase looms larger and larger, as the two swift steamers approach each other at almost top speed.
No sooner had the two steamers parted company than sail was made on board the Alabama.
Whilst in London, I ascertained that a number of steamers were being prepared to run the blockade with arms, &c.
If the Californian steamers still take this route, the steamer of the 1st must have been delayed, otherwise she should have passed us last night.
Very soon one of the steamers was seen to be getting up steam, and in about an hour and a half afterwards she was reported to be under weigh, standing out for us.
Hauled the two steamers alongside, and commenced discharging the two additional guns.
Three of thesteamers were at Teneriffe on the 11th of January.
The newspapers state that there are seven Yankee ships in pursuit of us--four steamers and three sail-ships.
Our hopes of capturing a Californian steamer were considerably damped by the intelligence given us by the mate of this schooner, that these steamers no longer ran this route, but that the outward bound took the Mona Passage (?
Bluff Harbour is the port of call and departure for steamers for Melbourne and Hobart.
The time is not far distant when this mighty river will be frozen to the distance of fully a mile out, and men may skate where Atlantic steamers sail.
The Arcachon oyster, if properly packed, can live eight days out of the water, a period more than sufficient to allow for its transit by the weekly steamers that trade between Bordeaux and London.
There were, however, three United States steamers plying from Puget Sound to Japan and China, occasionally reaching the Philippines.
As the world is at present constituted, steamers from New York and from Liverpool proceeding to these Pacific ports all pass Pernambuco, in Brazil, near the easternmost point of South America, not far south of the equator.
Steamers connect it with the states along the Great Lakes and with Canada and the outer world.
Find by reference to a map of the United States the great cities which may be reached by river steamers from New Orleans.
The great steamers waiting at the dock must fill their holds to the best advantage in order that they may carry as large an amount as possible on each voyage.
Philadelphia is on the Delaware River, a hundred miles from the ocean, but it has all the advantages of a seaport, for the river is deep enough to let great ocean steamers navigate to the city's docks.
Tank steamers from Cuba bring molasses; similar ones are filled with petroleum destined for the ends of the earth.
To-day it builds all types of vessels, from magnificent passenger steamers to the great steel ore ships which carry the iron ore of the Lake Superior districts.
Crowded steamers and ferryboats pass swiftly by, while huge ocean steamships may be seen poking their noses out from their docks at East Boston and South Boston or heading toward the city with their thousands of eager passengers.
The three steamers were still puffing bravely onward, and moment by moment the distance between their bows and the beach became less.
Twelve years ago four steamers floated on the Tigris, and were engaged in exploring the then almost unknown rivers of Mesopotamia and Susiana.
Sail boats, and great steamers like their own filled the docks, or dotted the waters.
In most steamers the engineer walks out of the mess-room, bathroom, or berth, into an alley-way on either side of the engine platform.
Nevertheless, the City of Boston stood on her course, and the distance between the two steamers gradually widened.
Crawshay measured the distance between the two steamerswith his eyes.
At that time there was no passenger service from Triest, but there were freight steamers and a chance to serve as steward to the officer's mess.
Ben, I wouldn't do what you have done for all the steamers on the lake.
Indeed, he had occasionally served as a pilot on board steamers and other vessels, which had earned for him the name of the Young Pilot, by which he was often called.
As a matter of fact he allowed them twenty-three minutes and did not fire the torpedo until suspicious steamers were hurrying to the aid of the Falaba.
On the next day we found three steamers to the north, one of them with much desired Cardiff coal.
The German Government will treat the cases of the American steamers Cushing and Gulflight according to the same principles.
Even at that time, competition as regards speed in the Clyde steamers was very keen.
The Thomsons had now a very fine shipbuilding-yard, in full working order, with several large steamerson the stocks.
From Belfast to the Highlands of Scotland is an easy route by steamers and railways.
The results were satisfactory; and his steamers grew and grew, until they developed into the celebrated Iona and Cambria, which were in later years built for him by the same firm.
In the first steamers ordered of me by the Messrs.
Coates and Young, though it was but a mere cockle-shell compared with the mighty ocean steamers which are now regularly launched from Queen's Island.
Bibby gave us an order for three steamers of very large tonnage, capable of being adapted for trade with the antipodes if necessary.
The largest Cunard steamers were built and engined there.
Some of the fine wooden paddle-steamers built in Bristol for the Royal Mail Company were sent round to the Clyde for their machinery.
These, with three smaller steamers for the Spanish cattle trade, and two largersteamers for other trades, made together twenty steam-vessels constructed for the Messrs.
In 1880 we took in another piece of the land reclaimed by the Belfast Harbour Trust; and there, in close proximity to the ship-yard, we manufacture all the machinery required for the service of the steamers constructed by our firm.
While other concerns were slack, we were either lengthening or building steamers as well as sailing-ships for firms in Liverpool, London, and Belfast.
In the Baltic, Russian destroyers attack a convoy of German steamers escorted by warships: they sink the German auxiliary cruiser Herrmann and two German torpedo boats.
At first it was the custom to send goods in regular ocean-steamers from England to the blockaded port; but this was soon abandoned, as the risk of capture on the long run across the Atlantic was too great.
Soon light blue smoke curling from the windows of the steamers told that they had been fired; and as the last boats left each vessel, she ceased her onward course, and drifted, abandoned and helpless, down the stream.
Even among the steamers captured, there were but few of the fleet-going, English-built craft.
The "Pocahontas" was one of the steamerschartered by the war department as a horse transport.
When the canal was pretty well blocked out, the levee was cut; and the rush of the waters from the great river undermined trees, and piled up new obstacles for the steamers to tow away.
Steamers plied up and down the river, bringing provision, ammunition, and new cannon, and soon the fort was ready to stand the most determined siege.
Soon from the black funnels of the steamers clouds of smoke began to pour, and in the rigging of the sail frigates were crowds of nimble sailors.
Three or four satellites, in the shape of small steamersand tugs, surrounded and preceded her.
The business assumed such proportions that half the shipyards in England were engaged in turning out fast steamers to engage in it.
Small steamers on every side followed the "Alabama," as near the scene of conflict as they dared.
On these steamers there is accommodation for several hundred passengers to lodge, and the fare is only one dollar, with an extra charge for beds and meals.
She passed many docks, where not so many steamers lay at anchor as she had once noticed.
Great docks, grim and dark, opened their roller doors along the banks; while the steamers before them swung great loads of freight in their cellars.
Under the control, the shipowner is paid at rates laid down in the Blue Book, and without going into figures it may be roughly stated that on the pre-war values of steamers these rates leave him 6 per cent.
This business of the shipbrokers eventually came to an end when regular lines of steamers were established, but they for long occupied a very influential position in the shipping world.
One remarkable change has taken place which would have shocked the shipowners of fifty years ago; steamers no longer carry sails and the tendency is to do away with masts.
In 1860 Sir Edward Harland, with a view to easy propulsion, introduced steamers into the Mediterranean trade with a length of ten times their beam.
The demand for speed was for some years the governing feature in the design of steamers in the Atlantic trade, and to a smaller extent in the Eastern trades, in which the carrying of coal for long voyages has also to be considered.
Harrison, in the sixties, owned a few iron ships in the Calcutta trade, and some small steamers in the Charente wine trade.
The Company was not a financial success, and the steamers were withdrawn in 1858.
In the early sixties he owned a line of small steamers trading to the West Indies, and afterwards he entered the China trade in association with the Swires, and was the founder of the prosperous Holt Line.
The sea along the east coast of England is sown with wreckage of steamers and fishing craft destroyed while pursuing their ordinary and innocent trades.
Fletcher founded, in 1870, the White Star Line of steamers to New York, Mr. Fletcher being associated with Mr. Ismay in the management.
The earlysteamers were badly designed, very short of freeboard, insufficient in strength and short of engine power; they were frequently loaded too deeply, and we had many casualties.
The time for steamers had not yet come in these regions.
There were then neither steamers nor telegraphs, and the response of the Prudential Committee could not be received until after the favorable season for oriental traveling would have passed.
Travellers were no longer obliged to depend on slow sailing vessels, since steamers ran every week from Constantinople to Smyrna and Trebizond, and every fortnight to Galatz on the Danube.
Shanghai was occupied, and the expedition remained in the vicinity of Woosung while surveying steamers were prospecting the river.
Only now all these may be seen from the decks of ocean liners, or, if one starts from Belém or Iquitos, from river steamers as safe and comfortably equipped and setting as good a table as most of those in our northern waters.
Going aboard one of the fine steamers of Nicholas Mihanovitch—the kings of the river traffic—at Buenos Aires, the traveler follows the course of the Paraná, which is the main water highway of Argentina.
At La Dorada the five hundred mile journey northward down the Magdalena to the Caribbean is made in one of the regularsteamers that cover this service.
Wherever there is a canal to be excavated, a railway to be built, or a line of steamers to be established, our Cousin John is ready with a full purse to favor the enterprise.
Selecting their position by superior speed, they could destroy a fleet of wooden steamers or ships-of-the-line.
At all of these, there are now cities or towns with trade either by steamers or small sailing vessels.
Swinging around that, the coasting steamers turn due west along the shore to Santiago, passing the harbor of Guantanamo, with its United States naval station.
I have seen hundreds ofsteamers getting up steam, but I never thought before how long it took.
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