Certainly there are better looking steamships than this one," Steve returned, pointing with a shrug of his shoulders at the clumsy side-wheeler.
After the river boats had demonstrated their practicability steamships were built for traffic along short distances of the coast.
Just as I get it settled in my mind that the railroads have done the biggest things and conquered the most difficulties along come the steamships and I am certain they are six times as wonderful.
Nevertheless the steamships had their full share of exciting history and you must not be positive in your opinion until you have heard both tales.
Then in 1818 a line of steamers to sail the Great Lakes was built; and afterwards steamships to travel to points along the Maine coast.
He had established on the Great Lakes a line of steamships running from Duluth to Buffalo, and was also operating on the Pacific Ocean steamship lines which gave him a connection with Japan, China, and other oriental countries.
Under Garrett's management a new era of expansion almost immediately began; work was started on the long delayed branch to Pittsburgh and plans were laid for establishing a line of steamships from Baltimore to the leading European ports.
To do her work she must be able to overhaul, in an ocean race, the swiftest transatlantic passengersteamships afloat.
And, pray, what line of steamships are you now going to serve?
Pago Pago is a port of call for steamships between San Francisco and Australia.
Had it not been for the prompt carrying service of railways and steamships famine would have resulted.
Belfast is noted for its linen textiles, and also for some of the largest steamships afloat that have been built in its yards.
Ocean steamships ascend the river to a point above Boma, the place of administration.
The Amazon is navigable for ocean steamships nearly to the junction of the Ucayale.
About sixteen thousand sea-going craft enter and clear yearly, and an average of nearly twenty large passenger and freight steamships arrive and clear daily, about one-half of them being foreign.
Honolulu, on the island of Oahu, is the capital and commercial centre, and foreign steamships and sailing-craft are scarcely ever absent from its harbor.
Steamships have their own power and generally take the canal route, thereby saving about ten days in time and fuel, and about four thousand eight hundred miles in distance.
At Stettin, Danzig, and Kiel are built the steamships that have given to Germany its great commercial power.
It is the terminal of the steamships of American, and of various other lines.
Steamships of deep draught reach their docks at the lower end of the city under their own steam, but sailing-craft pay heavy towage fees.
Steamships by way of the Suez Canal generally call at Perth and Adelaide.
Ocean steamshipshave gradually evolved into two types.
The consignments are sent by swift steamships to Seattle; thence by fast express trains to New York; there they are transferred to swift liners that take them across the Atlantic to European ports.
Pacific five years ago, now six lines of great freight and passengersteamships are unable to satisfy the increasing demands of trade.
All along we had passed great numbers of steamships and barges--ore carriers, but nowhere saw a large sailing craft, only a sail boat here and there.
I can not too strongly urge the policy of authorizing the establishment of a line of steamships regularly to ply between this country and foreign ports and upon our own waters for the transportation of the mail.
We can not be blind to the fact that other nations have already added large numbers of steamships to their naval armaments and that this new and powerful agent is destined to revolutionize the condition of the world.
As we are cut off from Aden by a number of the enemy's steamships that are following us, and the 'Erebus' is not in a condition to fight, we have run into Ungama for refuge and to repair our damage.
By means of these new steamships the traffic through Trieste was increased; the largest ships took passengers from thence as the most favourably situated point of departure for the whole of the middle of Europe.
The value of the steamships and steamboats actuated by the high pressure steam engine the writer has no means of ascertaining.
Funchal is a sea junction, as most of the passenger steamships plying between Europe and South American ports stop at this place.
Beautiful specimens are brought to the steamships by natives to sell to passengers.
Religious services--those of the Church of England--on British passenger steamships are made obligatory by maritime law.
Most of the shipping between Australia and New Zealand passes through Auckland; many large steamships from Europe also head for this port.
Stewards on passengersteamships in the East are generally Goanese, as they make better servants than Indians.
Wearing this flag there were many fine specimens of naval architecture--especially lines of steamships plying between Cadiz, the West Indies, and South America.
Powerful and swift steamships bring the home mails to three or four prominent points along the coast, as Aden, Ceylon, Singapore, Hong Kong, and from these points other steamers spread it broadcast over the empire.
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.
Each one can unload 250 cars a day and deliver freight to 4 steamships at the same time.
Most of the steamships prefer to risk the storms which rage outside, where they can have plenty of sea-room, and shorten their voyages by sailing at night as well as by day.
Within the last three years an English company has established a line of steamships between New York and the mouth of the Magdalena River.
The Government now pays a bounty to steamships upon every immigrant they bring, and is importing coolie labor to develop the coffee and sugar lands.
Twenty-three lines of steamships connect the Argentine Republic with the markets of Europe, and from forty to sixty vessels are sailing back and forth each month.
They are found in large numbers as far north as Guayaquil, on the west coast, and the passengers on the steamships passing up and down are entertained by their antics.
He would thus be Emperor of the Ocean, for with his fleet of steamships he would surely have conquered Britain’s old-fashioned sailing navy.
The steamships of this company are all new, modern-designed iron vessels, supplied with steam steering apparatus, electric light and bells, and all improved nautical appliances.
Ocean steamships enter it from the sea by Sandy Hook through the Narrows, and coasting ships from the north through Long Island Sound.
Bituminous coal is the fuel which runs the factories, railways and steamships of the world.
These great foreign steamships maintained by our traffic are many of them under contracts with their respective Governments by which in time of war they will become a part of their armed naval establishments.
That the American States lying south of us will cordially cooperate in establishing and maintaining such lines of steamships to their principal ports I do not doubt.
England has adopted this policy, and as a result can now upon necessity at once place upon her naval list some of the fastest steamships in the world.
The Commissioner of Navigation states that a very large per cent of our imports from Asia are now brought to us by English steamships and their connecting railways in Canada.
The service to Southampton, Boulogne, and Antwerp is also new, and is to be begun with the steamships City of New York and City of Paris in February next.
The saloon of one of the steamships is a dream of beauty and luxury.
The exhibit of the steamships show jest as much enterprise, and how world-wide is their commerce.
A great many fine, swift, commodious lines of steamships run between the South American ports and Europe and very few and comparatively poor ships run between those ports and the ports of the United States.
Boston has spent nine million dollars acquiring terminals and water-front, and is now guaranteeing the bonds of steamships to the extent of twenty-five million dollars.
Yet more, New Orleans is putting on a line of her own civic steamshipsto South America.
Canada's subsidies to steamships vary from year to year, but I do not think any year has much exceeded two millions.
It may be suggested that if there had been neither steamships nor railroads, the Pacific slope of North America (California, Oregon, and Washington) might possibly have become the home of yet another independent nation.
Paraguay stands almost alone in her forests, and till steamships began to ply on the great Parana, could be reached from the coast only by a tedious upstream voyage or an even more toilsome land journey.
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