London, Brighton and South Coast Railway, boats of, 227 London, Chatham and Dover Railway, boats of, 223, 224, 226 London and North Western Railway Co., ships of, 222 London and South Western Railway, Channel service of, 228, 229 _Lucania_, the, 159, 170, 171, 172, 174, 175, 177, 212 _Lusitania_, the (Cunard), 8, 60, 103, 107, 138, 146, 173, 180, 192, 194–206, 212, 213, 239, 301, 318 _Lusitania_, the (Orient Line), 161 _Lyons_, the, 227 _Lysistrata_, the, 280 _Macedonia_, the, 218 MacIver, David, 106 _Magnetic_, the, 193 Mails, carriage of Continental, 224 Mail service to Channel Islands, 227, 228 Mail steamer, the first, 93 Mail steamers, first tender for, 105; early Cunard, 107; Royal Mail Steam Packet Co.’s first contract and ships, 110–11 _Majestic_, the, 149, 168, 178, 179, 194 _Maloja_, the, 218 _Malwa_, the, 218 Manby, Aaron, and first iron steamboat, 124, 132 _Mantua_, the, 218 Marconi system, installation on _Campania_ and _Lucania_, 171 _Marjory_, the, 84 _Marmora_, the, 218 Mathesius, steam power and, 19 _Matoppo_, the, 323 Matthews, Capt. B. E., 148 Maudslay, Joseph, 132; _Great Western_ engines, 100 _Mauretania_, the, 8, 60, 103, 107, 138, 144, 146, 151, 153, 173, 192, 193, 194, 206, 208, 211, 212, 213, 230, 236, 238, 239, 288, 299, 318 Mechanical propulsion of boats, early forms of, 10, 13, 14, 15, 16, 20, 22; Earl Stanhope’s scheme, 57; Elijah Ormsbee’s scheme, 57 _Medina_, the, 218 _Medway_, the, 242 _Megantic_, the, 209 “Memorials of James Watt,” by Williamson, 83 _Menai_, the, 223 _Menai_, the (S. Y.), 268 Mersey Docks and Harbour Board, 240, 241 Miller, Patrick, first paddle-boat by, 42; steamboats by, 43 _Milton_, the, 323 _Minnehaha_, the, 220 Mississippi, Fulton’s scheme for the, 76; steamboats of, 258, 259, 260 _Moldavia_, the, 218 _Monarch_, the, 242 _Mongolia_, the, 218 _Monitoria_, the, 247 Monkey forecastle, 283–4 _Mooltan_, the, 118, 218 _Morea_, the, 218 Morrison, J. H.: “History of American Steam Navigation,” 44 “Mould floor,” shipbuilders’, 287 _Munich_, the, 229 Murdoch, William, 132 Napier, Charles, application of paddle-wheels by, 14; and first iron steamboat, 124 Napier, David, experiments in resistance, 81; the _Rob Roy_, 81; and cross-channel packets, 220; and _Comet_, 79; condenser and, 136 Napier, James: “Life of Robert Napier,” 78 Napier, Robert, engines for _British Queen_, 102; and Samuel Cunard, 106, 107; and steam yachts, 267 _Natchez_, the, 259, 261 National Line, 151, 212 Naval Architects, Institution of, 319 Navigation, modern safeguards, 305 Nelson Line, 220 Newcomen, Thomas, steam engine of, 25–7; improvement of by Watt, 35, 135 New England Navigation Co., 262 Newhaven-Dieppe route, 227 _New York_, the, 165, 220