Ericsson, John, hot-air engines, 384; screw propellers, 170, 215, 218 Ericsson Shipping Co., 349 Ericsson’s _Monitor_, 329 “Etoile” engine, 210 European and Australian Steam Navigation Co., 184, 185 Excursions in early steamboats, 43 Exhibition of 1851, extra traffic from, 107 Fairfield Co., Govan, 96, 109, 301 Fall River Line, 46, 47 Falmouth-Mediterranean service, 176 Fares, passenger, under competition, 74 Faron, Mr., 158 Farragut, Admiral, 175 Fauber (American engineer) and hydroplane, 386 Fawcett & Preston, engines by, 144, 148, 177 Ferguson, Mr. John, 206 Ferry steamers for railway trains, 363-366 Ficket, Francis (Ficket and Crocker), 123 Finland ice-breaker, 369 Fishbourne, Admiral, 316 Fishguard-Rosslare service, 116 Fitch, John, as inventor of steamboats, 21; his ideas taken by Fulton, 23, 24 Fleetwood-Dublin service, 102 Fletcher, W. & A., Co., Hoboken, 51 Floating docks, 352-363 Folkstone-Boulogne service, 106 Forbes, Mr. R. B., Boston, 170 Ford’s (Edward) patent of 1646, 8 Forenade Line of Copenhagen, 117 Fortanini hydroplan, 385 Forth and Clyde Canal, 57, 59 Forwood Line, 300 France-England, first steamer communication between, 72 Franco-German War, 115 Franklin, Benjamin, 21 Freeman, Mr., of Chipping Campden, 13 French Government, experiments in warships, 338; and Crimean War transports, 240 French steamers entering British ports, 76 French Transatlantic Co., 115 Fulton, Robert, as inventor of steamboats, 19; and drawings of John Fitch, 23, 24; financed by Livingston, 25; his career, 25; experiments with submarines, 26; corresponds with Lord Stanhope, 27; steamboat experiments, 28; relations with Symington, 28; the _Clermont_, 30; list of his steamboats, 35; relations with Bell & Miller, 61 Funnels, four, 92; masts used as, 212, 218 Fyfe, William, of Fairlie, 66 Galley, Illyrian, propelled by oxen, 6 Galway-America service, 98; to Portland, Maine, 162; to Newfoundland, route, 162 Galway Line to America, 161-163 Gas-lighting experiment, 253 Gas-machinery propulsion, 340 General Iron Screw-Collier Co., 233 General Screw Shipping Co., 233 General Steam Navigation Co., 81-83; joint service with G.E.R., 117 Genevois (J. A.) propellers (1759), 8 German Emperor’s yacht, 371 German Navy, 303 German shipbuilding, 302; State-developed, 303 Germania shipbuilding establishment, 303 Germanischer Lloyd, 302 Germany as a Naval Power, 339 Gibbs, Antony, & Sons, 227 Gibbs, Bright & Co., 226 Glasgow ferries, 366 Glasgow-Inverness service, 100 Glasgow-Ireland service, 100 Glasgow-Liverpool service, 100. _See also_ Clyde Glasgow, transatlantic service from, 237 Glasgow and Dublin Screw Steam Packet Co., 101 Glasgow and New York Steamship Co., 240 Gordon & Co., Deptford, 165 Goudie, James, 134 Graham, Osbourne, & Co., 349