Steamships and their storyChatterton, E. Keble (Edward Keble)
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Steamships and their story
Chatterton, E. Keble (Edward Keble)
Shipbuilding; Steamboats
The “Celtic” 178
The “Kaiser Wilhelm II.” 180
Giovanni Branca’s Steam Engine (1629) 184
The Blades of a Parsons Turbine 185
The Parsons Turbine 186
The “Carmania” (1905) 188
Lower half of the fixed portion of one of the “Carmania’s”
Turbines 188
A Study in Comparisons: the “Magnetic” and “Baltic” 192
The “Mauretania” when completing at Wallsend-on-Tyne 198
Stern of the “Mauretania” 200
The “Lusitania” 202
The “Adriatic” 206
The “George Washington” 208
The “Berlin” 208
The “Laurentic” on the Stocks 210
The “Mooltan” 216
The Starting Platform in the Engine Room of the “Mooltan” 218
The “Balmoral Castle” 220
The “Cambria” (1848) 222
Engines of the “Leinster” (1860) 222
The “Atalanta” (1841) 226
The “Lyons” (1856) 226
The “Empress” leaving Dover Harbour 226
The Ocean Tug “Blackcock” 234
The Passenger Tender “Sir Francis Drake” 234
The 7,000 ton Floating Dry-dock under tow by the “Roode Zee”
and “Zwarte Zee” 236
The Salvage Tug “Admiral de Ruyter” 238
The New York Harbour and River Tug Boat “Edmund Moran” 238
The Paddle-Tug “Dromedary” 240
The Bucket Dredger “Peluse” 240
The Suction Dredger “Leviathan” 242
The “Vigilant” 242
The Telegraph Steamer “Monarch” 244
Deck View of the Telegraph Ship “Faraday” 244
The “Silverlip” 246
Section of Modern Oil-tank Steamer 246
The Turret-ship “Inland” 248
Midship Section of a Turret-ship 248
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