Coastwise steamships, lines of, 223. Collins, Mr. E. K., founder of the Collins line, 120. Collins line, establishment of, 25, 121. vessels of, 20, 31, 121. rates of, 122. bankruptcy of, 27, 122. Colombo, 273. Columba, the, 72. Comet, the, model of, 3. description of, 5, 70, 96. Compagnie Générale Transatlantique, the, establishment of, 25, 43. freight capacity of ships of, 218. Condenser, surface, 32. Conveniences and luxuries of transatlantic travel, 137, _et seq._ Cotton, value of export of, 224. Cufic, the, tonnage of, 230. Cunard, Mr. Samuel, 12, 118. Cunard line, foundation of, 12. first fleet of, 21, 118. a monopoly at the start, 120. freight capacity of their largest ships, 218. Demologos the, Fulton’s war steamer, description of, 5. Distances, prices, etc., from London to San Francisco eastward, table of, 265. Draught, forced, 88. Dreadnaught, the, a famous clipper ship, 225. Duchess of Hamilton, the, 71. Eider, the, rapid freighting of, 247. Elder, John, & Co., introduce the compound engine, 34, 40. Elevators, floating capacity of, 239. Engineer force on a large steamship, duties, 173. Engine-room of a steamship, 170. Engines, marine, of the Great Britain, 19, 33, 36. triple expansion, 39, 46. compound, 68, 87. Enterprise, the, first steamship to arrive in India, 7, 255. Ericsson, John, shows the practicability of the screw propeller, 14. Esmeralda, the, wave-action in the case of, 48. Etruria, the, best voyage of, 77. timely arrival of, 252. Evans, Oliver, advocates high pressures, 33, 35. Export business in 1890 from the principal Atlantic ports, 224. Fairfield, ship-yard, description of, 104. “Fairing the ship,” 98. Fastnet light, 194. Ferry-boat, the New York, 3. Fire-drill on a steamship, 154. Firemen on the ocean steamships, 44. Florio line, the, 243. Fog at sea, dangers of, 186. narrow escapes in, 189, _et seq._ Forbes, Mr. R. B., of Boston, builds screw steamers for transatlantic trade, 24. Freighters, as a class of ocean steamships, 226, 233. Freights, ocean, rate of, 251. volume of, 224. how handled, 246. Froude, Mr. W., investigations of, on the best forms for ships, 46, 63. Fruit steamship, the, 239, _et seq._ description of, 240. Fulton, the maker of the first successful steamboats, 2, 5. first war steamer designed by, 5. Germanic, the, 35, 74. Gibraltar, description of, 260. Glasgow & New York Steamship Co., 125. Glasgow, the shipbuilders of, 96. Grain-carrying, vessels designed for, 234, _et seq._ Great Britain, the, building of, 13. details of, 19. fate of, 20. Great Eastern, the, 30. Great Western, the, 72. description of, 10. her voyage to New York and return, 11, 113, 117. her career and end, 12. built of iron and with a screw, 14.