Chilian Revolution, The _Rising Star_ and the, 126 China, P. & O. Co. service to, 180; ships for, 206 China trade, 173; ships in, 265 Chinese paddle-wheels, ancient, 4 Cigar (shaped) ships, 375, 380 City of Dublin Steam Packet Co. _See_ Dublin Clark, Edwin, and floating docks, 363 Clark and Standfield and floating docks, 355, 361 Cleopatra’s Needle, 341 Clippers, Yankee wooden, 194 Clyde, Bell’s steamboat on the, 62; first Cunarders built on the, 151; first steamer on the, 28; steamers on the, in 1818, 76. _See also_ Glasgow Clyde ferries, 366 Clyde to Liverpool, first passenger-steamer, 95 Coach fare, Scotland to London, 85 Coal at Suez, 166 Coal consumption, 229; of turbines, 309; in early voyages across Atlantic, 142 Coal, difficulty of carrying, for long voyages, 169 Coalfields, Midland, 213 Coaling for steamers, 256 Coastal steam-ship service, development of, 80; British, 71 Coasting trade of the United Kingdom in 1822-39, 76, 77 Cochrane, Hon. William E., 127, 129 Cockerill (Belgian firm), 321 “Coffin brigs,” 149 Colden, Cadwallader D., on Robert Fulton, 26 Coles, Capt., and cupola vessels, 330; tripod masts, 332; drowned, 334 Collier belt conveyors, 349 Colliers, screw, 214 Collier, steam, with a screw, first, 213 Collingwood Shipbuilding Co., Ontario, 55 Collins, Mrs., and children drowned, 160 Collins, Mr. K. Edward, New York, 155 Collins Line, 153, 155 _et seq._; construction of ships, 158; secures premier position, 159; extravagances and losses, 159; subsidy reduced and line ceased, 161; service, 240 Collisions, intentional, 53 Colon, service to, 191 Commercial Steam Packet Co., 111 Compagnie Belge Maritime du Congo, 299 Compagnie Générale Transatlantique, 267 Compañia de Vapores Correos Interinsulares Canarios, 299 Confederate States of America, steamers, 90, 98, 174; commissioners, 262 Connecticut River, Morey’s steamboat on, 24 Continental passenger traffic, 105 Cootes, Mr., Walker-on-Tyne, 211, 213 Cork Steamship Co., 97, 139 Corrugated steam-ship, 349 Craggs, R., & Sons, Ltd., 348, 349 Cramp, Messrs., Philadelphia, 256, 291, 340 Crimean War, 98; iron vessel in the, 316; and shipbuilding yards, 319; floating batteries, 312, 320; P. & O. steamers employed, 180; steam-ships in the, 312; transports, 183, 239, 262 Cruisers, armed mercantile, 287, 291 Cunard Line, 281-287; first Cunarder based on Manx steamer, 87; beginnings, 150; sizes, &c. of first steamers, 151; increase of business, 152; builds iron ships, 153; rivalry with Inman Line, 240; first iron steamer, 243; last paddle-steamer, 246; adopt screw-steamers, 246 Cunard, Mr. Samuel, 134, 149 Curling, Young & Co., Messrs., 138, 146, 187 Curtis turbines, 338 Cutters in Channel Islands service, 109 Cutwaters, straight, 158 Dalswinton, 58 Davey, Mr. W. J., 299