Agents, steamship, at home and abroad, 132. Aller, the, 40. America, the, as a freight carrier, 233. American enterprise in first establishing long ocean routes, 253. Anchor, heaving the, 156. Anchor line, the, 243. Arctic, the, loss of, 26. Arizona, the, 36. collision of, with an iceberg, 203. speed of, 229. Atlas line, the, 243. Austro-Hungarian Lloyd Steam Navigation Company, 264. Banana trade, the, 240, _et seq._ receipts of bananas in 1890, 243. Barges, coaling, 248. Bassorah, 273. Bayonne, the, a tank steamer, record of, 245. Bennett, James Gordon, Sr., a passenger on the Sirius’s first return voyage, 217. Bill of fare of a transatlantic liner, 137. required by the British Government, 143. Black Ball line. See _Marshall, C. H., & Co._ Black Star line. See _Grimshaw & Co._ Black Star line, old. See _Guion line_. Boat drill on shipboard, 181. Boilers, tubular, the first, 33. Bombay, description of, 271. steamship lines converging at, 272. Bothnia, the, 35. Bramah, Joseph, proposes the plan of a screw propeller, 17. Bramwell, Sir Frederick, 36. his comparison of an ancient galley to an Atlantic liner, 108. Breadstuffs and provisions, value of export of, in 1890-91, 224. Britannia, the first of the Cunard ships to sail for America, 21. her dimensions, 22, 31, 73. the pioneer of the Cunard line, 118. Britannic, the, 35. description of, 73. average speed of, 77. British India Steam Navigation Company, the, 263. Brown, Wm. H., builder of the Collins vessels, 26. Brunel, designer of the Great Western, 10. and of the Great Britain, 19. plans the Great Eastern, 30. Buenos Ayres, 288. Bulkheads and double bottoms in steamships, 206. Bureau Veritas, exhibit of, at the Liverpool naval exhibition, 4. Burns, Mr. George, 12. Bushire, 272. Calcutta, first steamship to arrive in, 255. California, early sea travel to, 254. Callao, 284. Canton, 278. Castle Mail Packets Company, 292. Cattle ships, loading of, 248. cost of shipping cattle, 251. Caulking an iron ship, 102. Charles W. Wetmore, the, the “whaleback,” description of, 234, _et seq._ Checking of baggage, system of transatlantic, 131, 141. China, the, 32. Chinese passenger traffic to California, 281. City of Berlin, the, 35. City of Glasgow, the, 73, 124. City of New York, the, 42. highest average speed made by, 129. City of Paris, the, 42. description of, 74. bulkhead system of, 206. as a record breaker, 229. City of Rome, the, rejected by the Inman Company, 93. Clermont, the, speed of, 68. description of, 70. Clipper ships, famous, 225. early American, 254. Clyde, Firth of the, 95. Coal, consumption of, on steamers, 39, 44, 67. reduced by the employment of improved engines, 87. Coaling ocean steamers, 248. Coal-trimmers, feast of, 175.