Sovereign of the Seas, the, quick run of, 254. Specie-room on a steamship, 231. Speed of ship, schemes to increase, 58. conditions for, 61. increases safety, 204. Standard Oil Co., the, tank steamers of, 245. “Steam lanes,” 215. Steamboat had at first the greatest use in America, 4, 28. Steamship, a first-class, cost of, 92. construction of, first stages, 97, _et seq._ variability of results in its construction, 93. lines, number and statistics of, 135, _et seq._ records of fast trips of, 130. passenger, table fare of, 136. incoming, how signalled, 142. hauling out a, 149. expert seamanship required to manage a, 150. officers, junior, 163. fire drill on, 154. care of, at sea, 159. crew of, 165. inspection of, 170. travel, perils of, 186, _et seq._ wrecked, list of, 195, _et seq._ burned at sea, 197. speed of increases safety, 204. safety of, 205, _et seq._ freight and passenger, 217. Steamships, the fastest, cost of, 218. list of transatlantic, 219. routes long, first established by Boston merchants, 253; to India, China, and Australia, list of, 266; traffic main of, 256. number and nationality of, 256. lines of transatlantic, 259. between Europe and the East, 260. Steel, use of, in naval construction, 54. industry in the United States, 56, 86. Steerage passengers, fare of, 143. inspection of, 144. Steering gear, steam, 164. Stevens, Mr., of Hoboken, experiments of, with the screw propeller, 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.