-9.htm.html#Page_243" class="pginternal">243.

Hong-Kong, 277.

Hoogly River, navigation of, 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.

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