[Footnote T: Preble. Lindsay says thirty-seven.] [Footnote U: Preble, p. 137; also Bates, p. 185.] [Footnote V: Meeker.] [Footnote W: Parliamentary papers 1839, vol. XLVI, no. 566, as to the private contract.] [Footnote X: Lindsay, vol. IV.] [Footnote Y: Meeker; also Parl. papers 1849, vol. XII, no. 571.] [Footnote Z: Lindsay, vol. X; also Parl. papers, report H. of C., Aug., 1840.] [Footnote AA: Report of Select Com. (1846) Parl. papers, vol. XV, no. 565, p. 3.] [Footnote AB: Lindsay, vol. IV.] [Footnote AC: The _Princeton_, sloop-of-war fitted with the Ericsson screw, launched the same year.] [Footnote AD: Lindsay, vol. IV, p. 198, _note_.] [Footnote AE: John R. Spears, "The Story of the American Merchant Marine," pp. 254-255.] [Footnote AF: William Wheelwright, of Newburyport, Massachusetts, sometime American consul at Guayaquil.] [Footnote AG: Winthrop L. Marvin, "The American Merchant Marine," p. 231; also Preble; and Lindsay, vol. IV, pp. 316-330.] [Footnote AH: Marvin, p. 231.] [Footnote AI: See p. 76, _post_.] [Footnote AJ: Meeker.] [Footnote AK: Lindsay, vol. IV, p. 198, _note_.] [Footnote AL: Wells, p. 148.] [Footnote AM: Bates, p. 87; also p. 130.] [Footnote AN: Meeker.] [Footnote AO: Meeker.] [Footnote AP: See p. 77, _post_.] [Footnote AQ: Meeker.] [Footnote AR: Meeker.] [Footnote AS: Parl. papers, 1867-68, 1868-69.] [Footnote AT: See p. 20, _ante_.] [Footnote AU: The American Steamship Co. of Phila., with 4 iron steamers built on the Delaware--the _Pennsylvania_, _Ohio_, _Indiana_, and _Illinois_.] [Footnote AV: Meeker.] [Footnote AW: Ultimately embracing the American, Red Star, White Star, Atlantic Transport, and Dominion Lines.] [Footnote AX: For details of this contract see report of (U.S.) commissioner of navigation for 1903, pp. 48-52, and 224-268. The two steamships called for were the _Lusitania_, 31,550 gross tons, launched June 7, 1906; and the _Mauretania_, 31,937 gross tons, launched Sept. 19, 1906, both quadruple screw turbines, about 70,000 horsepower; the largest, fastest, and completest steamers afloat till the production in 1911 of the _Olympic_, 45,324 gross tons, of the International Mercantile Marine Co.'s White Star Line.] [Footnote AY: U.S. consul, Charlottetown, P.E.I. in daily Con. Repts. (Jan. 20) 1911, no. 16.] [Footnote AZ: Consul General Small, Halifax, in Con. Repts. (Dec.) 1905, no. 303.] [Footnote BA: The American Year Book, 1911.] [Footnote BB: American Year Book, 1911.] [Footnote BC: Lloyd's Register, 1910-11.] CHAPTER III FRANCE