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Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1910. Excerpt: ... INDEX (N.B.--All vessels are indexed under Ships named.) Aberdeen Line, Rennie's, 183; Thompson's, 296 Aberdeen schooners, 85 Accidents, steam-ship, inquiry into, 77 Adelaide Steamship Co., 347 Admiralty, the, steam packet, 102; vessels, 176; and floating docks, 356, 362; and private shipbuild- ing yards, 319; and twin screws, 325; and wooden three-deckers, 316 jEolipile of Hero of Alexandria, 9 Africa, West, mail service, 261 African Steamship Co., 26l, 299 Ailsa Shipbuilding Co., 99 Alabama claims, the, 176 Albany Line, 48 Albion Co., 298 Alexandria-England, carriage ot mails, 178 Alexandria-Suez, travel between, 167 Algiers, U.S.A., floating dock, 358 Allaire Works, 173 Allan Line, 254-255, 281 Allen, Dr. John, and jet-propeller, 12 Allison, Messrs. M. A., New Jersey, 50 Altona floating dock, 355 Alvarez, Don Jose, Chilian Agent, 128 America, steam vessels in, in 1817, 45 America, South, West Coast of, 263 American Civil War, vessels in the, 90, 98, 175, 329; blockade-run- ners, 327 American ice-breaking steamers, 369-371 American Line, 256, 291 American mail service, 150, 188 American Navy, the, 329, 339 American pioneers in steam navi- gation, 19 American river steamers, design of, 46 American Shipbuilding Co., 54 American steam-ships and foreign trade, beginnings of, 153 American subsidy to steam-ship service, 155 American train ferry-boats, 363 Amherst, Lord, 164 Anderson, Anderson & Co., 294 Anglo-French Co.'s fleet, 118 Animal-driven paddles, 2 Apcar, Messrs., Calcutta, 264 Appleton's "Cyclopaedia of Ameri- can Biography," 19, 23 Armour plates, 331 et seq. Armstrong, Mitchell & Co., 212, 364 Armstrong, Whitwortli & Co., 336, 367, 369 Armstrong, Sir William, and cupola vessels, 330 Aspinwall, C.H., 188 Atlantic cable-laying by Great Eastern, 277 "Atlantic Greyhound" title wo...
