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steamship
steamship watercraft propelled by a steam engine or a steam turbine. Early Steam-powered Ships Marquis Claude de Jouffroy d'Abbans is generally credited with the first experimentally successful application of steam power to navigation; in 1783 his Pyroscaphe ran against the current of t... Read more
Sir Samuel Cunard
Sir Samuel Cunard , 1787-1865, Canadian pioneer of regular transatlantic steam navigation, b. Halifax, N.S. The son of a United Empire Loyalist, he became a leading businessman of Nova Scotia and engaged in banking, lumbering, shipping, and shipbuilding enterprises. His fleet at one time numbered so... Read more
Sir Hugh Allan
Sir Hugh Allan 1810-82, Canadian financier and shipowner, b. Scotland. He emigrated to Canada in 1826, was employed by a large shipbuilding company in Montreal, and later founded the Allan Line of steamships. He was given the contract to build the Canadian Pacific Railway, but the Pacific scandal ... Read more
Robert Fulton
Robert Fulton 1765-1815, American inventor, engineer, and painter, b. near Lancaster, Pa. He was a man remarkable for his many talents and his mechanical genius. An expert gunsmith at the time of the American Revolution, he later turned to painting (1782-86) landscapes and portraits in Philadelphia... Read more
William Russell Grace
William Russell Grace 1832-1904, American financier, b. Queenstown, Ireland. He was in business in England and Peru before establishing (1865) W. R. Grace & Company in New York City. After Peru's defeat by Chile, Grace was among those who underwrote the Peruvian national debt, in return for ext... Read more
Rochefort
Rochefort or Rochefort-sur-Mer , city (1990 pop. 26,949), Charente-Maritime dept., W France, on the Charente River near the Bay of Biscay. It is a fishing port with shipyards and aircraft and machine industries. It has become a popular health spa since the early 1960s. An important naval base in... Read more
Lake Nyasa
Lake Nyasa , or Lake Malawi , Port. Niassa, c.11,600 sq mi (30,040 sq km), c.360 mi (580 km) long and from 15 to 50 mi (24-80 km) wide, E central Africa, in the Great Rift Valley . Lake Nyasa, the third largest lake in Africa, is bordered by Tanzania in the north and northeast, by Mozambique i... Read more
clipper
clipper type of sailing ship, designed for speed. Long and narrow, the clipper had the greatest beam aft of the center; the bow cleaved the waves; and the ship carried, besides topgallant and royal sails, skysails and moonrakers—a veritable cloud of sails. The type originated in the United St... Read more
Canadian National Railway
Canadian National Railway rail system in Canada and the United States, extending from coast to coast in Canada with many branch lines in each province and in the United States. The system began as an amalgamation of five separate railroad enterprises that were unified in 1922 under the ownership of... Read more
Henry Morrison Flagler
Henry Morrison Flagler 1830-1913, American financier and real-estate developer, b. Hopewell, near Canandaigua, N.Y. As a youth he struck out for himself in Ohio. After trying the grain and salt business, he joined John D. Rockefeller in oil refining. The firm of Rockefeller, Andrews & Flagler... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "steamship"

steamship
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...in 1812. Oceangoing Steamships The first ocean crossing...when two British steamship companies sent rival...The Demise of the Steamship Despite such innovations...shafts, commercial steamships have today given way...1977); F. Talbot, Steamship Conquest of the World...
Steamships
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Military History Steamships. In his classic study, Sea Power in the Machine Age , Bernard Brodie observed that navies were relatively late in utilization...
steam propulsion
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea ...new technology and steamships were nearly always...Coal Burners. Early steamships fuelled by coal were...transatlantic voyage by a steamship, the Savannah , took...the Sirius proved a steamship could cross the Atlantic...was the main fuel for steamships for many years. It...
William Wheelwright
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...promoter who pioneered South American steamship, railroad, and telegraph construction...in introducing the recently perfected steamship on the Pacific coast of South America...investment group to form the Pacific Steamship Navigation Company, which he served...
Brunel, Isambard Kingdom
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea ...interest in the development of ocean steamships and steam propulsion , and in 1835 suggested...steamer of the day. It was the first steamship built to make regular crossings of the...Britain , which was the first large iron steamship, the largest ship afloat at the time...
diesel engine
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea ...the boiler oil used for oil-fired steamships. However, during the 1950s diesel...the residual oil used by oil-burning steamships, which is also known as fuel oil...travel twice as far as a similarly sized steamship on the fuel stored in its double-bottom...
Edward Knight Collins
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...s proposed steam line, the age of steamships had begun. Collins became an enthusiastic...poorly advised and poorly managed. Five steamships were to be built, all designed for...officially the New York and Liverpool Mail Steamship Company) was to run 20 round-trip...
Sir Samuel Cunard
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...carefully considered plans for a line of steamships that he received the contract. In...operation, establishing the first regular steamship service between the continents. This...Isambard Brunel, and the Great Atlantic Steamship (2003).
condenser
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea ...of equipment in the engine room of a steamship by which the steam, after use in the...type as that used in the few surviving steamships today. The principle was the same as...in the boilers. Twentieth-century steamships had an oil separator which was used...
ocean liners
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea ...behind the Sirius . The first passenger steamship built specifically for transatlantic...grew into a company which ran regular steamship services to the Far East and Australasia...replace the transatlantic mail brigs with steamships (see also rms ). In the terms of his...

Dictionary entries related to "steamship"

Coastwise Steamship Lines
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...1849 the Pacific Mail Steamship Company pioneered the...Francisco and Oregon. Steamships played a crucial role...consolidate (Eastern Steamship Company, Atlantic, Gulf and West Indies Steamship Company), and in...gained control of the steamships, as when the Southern...
Great Lakes Steamships
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History GREAT LAKES STEAMSHIPS GREAT LAKES STEAMSHIPS date from 1816, when the first such ship, the Canadian...of the bulk cargoes (iron ore, coal, stone), whereas steamships took over most of the package freight and passenger business...
steamship
Book article from: The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military steamship n. a ship that is propelled by a steam engine.
Merchant Marine
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...take off until 1838 when two British steamships, the Sirius and the Great Western...and to the establishment of subsidized steamship lines converging from New York and San...Samuel Cunard led Congress to support steamship lines to Bremen and Le Havre. Finally...
Great Britain
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History Great Britain was the second of three highly innovative steamships designed by I. K. Brunel . It was intended by the Great Western Steamship Company as a sister ship to Brunel's Great Western , which had been launched in Bristol as a wooden...
Cables, Atlantic and Pacific
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...the Atlantic Ocean. The development of large ocean-going steamships and the plastic material gutta-percha, for insulating copper...unsuccessful attempt the year before, in 1858 British and American steamships met at midocean to try again. The line broke three times...
Steamboats
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...ran mostly under sail and it was thirty years until regular steamship service began on the ocean. By 1825, the steamboat, fueled...Arkansas, Savannah, Sacramento, and Columbia Rivers. Ocean steamships, powered by coal and drawing four times as much water as...
Panama Canal
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...build a road to the navigable Chagres River and import two steamships to conduct trade across the isthmus. For his work, Bogot...construction of a waterway outside of the creation of railroads and steamship enterprises, people still dreamed about a trans-isthmian...
Evans, Frederick John Owen
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...experiments were carried out on board the pioneer Atlantic steamship Great Eastern . The results led to proposals for the proper...the Iron-built Ships, and a Selection of the Wood-built Steamships in Her Majesty ’ s Navy, ” in Philosophical...
fireman
Book article from: The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military fireman n. pl. -men 1. an enlisted man in the U.S. Navy who operates engineering machinery. 2. a person who tends a furnace or the fire of a steam engine or steamship.

Thesaurus entries related to "steamship"

ship
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...cutter destroyer dreadnought factory ship freighter frigate galleon galley icebreaker laker liner merchant ship oil tanker passenger ship pirate ship schooner steamship supertanker tall ship tanker See also tables at boat and sailing ship.

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A.M. Best Affirms Ratings of The Steamship Mutual Underwriting Association Limited.
Business Wire; 2/28/2008; 527 words ; ...issuer credit rating of "bbb+" of The Steamship Mutual Underwriting Association Limited (Steamship London or the Club) (United Kingdom...ratings remains stable. The ratings of Steamship London reflect the financial strength of...
A.M. Best Affirms Rating of The Steamship Mutual Underwriting Association Limited; Assigns Issuer Credit Rating.
Business Wire; 3/23/2006; 630 words ; ...issuer credit rating of "a-" to The Steamship Mutual Underwriting Association Limited (Steamship London or the Club) (United Kingdom...as well as strong support provided by Steamship Mutual Underwriting Association (Bermuda...
A.M. Best Affirms Rating of Steamship Mutual Underwriting Association - Bermuda - Ltd; Revises Outlook to Stable.
Business Wire; 1/6/2005; 659 words ; ...financial strength rating of A- (Excellent) of Steamship Mutual Underwriting Association (Bermuda) Ltd (Steamship). The outlook has been changed to stable from negative. The rating reflects Steamship's improving and more stable prospective...
Lykes Bros. Steamship Co. Files for Protection.(Originated from St. Petersburg Times, Fla.)
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News; 10/12/1995; ; 700+ words ; ...Fla.--Oct. 12--Lykes Bros. Steamship Co., one of the nation's largest...obsolete maritime regulations. Lykes Steamship said it owes $201.7 million to creditors...company's financial problems," Lykes Steamship said in a news release. "There will...
A.M. Best Downgrades Ratings of The Steamship Mutual Underwriting Association Limited.
Business Wire; 3/28/2007; 521 words ; ...downgraded the financial strength rating of The Steamship Mutual Underwriting Association Limited (Steamship London) (United Kingdom) to B...reflect the downgrade in the ratings of The Steamship Mutual Underwriting Association (Bermuda...
CORRECTING and REPLACING Steamship Authority Implements Avamar Axion to Reduce Backup Window.
Business Wire; 1/6/2004; 700+ words ; ...sentence of release should read: The Steamship Authority, which transports more than...time). The corrected release reads: STEAMSHIP AUTHORITY IMPLEMENTS AVAMAR AXION TO...solutions, today announced that the Steamship Authority, a Massachusetts transportation...
Lykes Steamship Finds Buyer for Most Assets.(Originated from St. Petersburg Times, Fla.)
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News; 12/31/1996; ; 700+ words ; ...lifeline to the foundering Lykes Bros. Steamship Co. Canadian Pacific Limited, a huge...the sale is approved by the court, the steamship company's creditors and various regulatory...Monday, Canadian Pacific would pay Lykes Steamship $30 million and assume several million...
A.M. Best Affirms Rating of The Steamship Mutual Underwriting Association Ltd; Revises Outlook to Stable.
Business Wire; 1/6/2005; 471 words ; ...strength rating of A- (Excellent) of The Steamship Mutual Underwriting Association Ltd (Steamship London) (London, England). The outlook...negative, in line with the outlook for Steamship Mutual Underwriting Association (Bermuda...
American Steamship acquires six freighters for $120 million.
Newspaper article from: Buffalo News (Buffalo, NY); 6/8/2006; 700+ words ; ...Byline: Matt Glynn Jun. 8--American Steamship Co. has bolstered its fleet by acquiring...fleet to a total of 18 vessels. American Steamship already had the largest U.S.-flag...strengthen its balance sheet. American Steamship earlier this year was identified as a...
Nantucket, Mass., Steamship Authority CEO May Resign.
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News; 4/23/2004; 700+ words ; ...Hole, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket Steamship Authority, CEO Fred Raskin has signaled...to resign without penalty and giving Steamship Authority officials the option to fire...news leaves the future management of the Steamship Authority in question at a time when...