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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 steamship watercraft propelled by a steam engine...alone was made in 1838, when two British steamship companies sent rival ships to New York...Britain (1845) was the first large iron steamship driven by a screw propeller to cross...
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...
Samuel Zemurray
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...Hubbard of Mobile, bought a bankrupt steamship line with UFCO supplying 60 percent of...acquired the Bluefields Fruit & Steamship Company in Nicaragua from his father...diseases. UFCO had a near monopoly on steamship and rail transportation, radio communications...
Brunel, Isambard Kingdom
Book article from: World Encyclopedia ...Great Western (1837), the first trans-Atlantic wooden steamship, Great Britain (1843), the first iron-hulled, screw-driven steamship, and Great Eastern (1858), a steamship powered by screws and paddles, which was the largest vessel...
Sirius
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea Sirius, the first steamship, with the Great Western , to compete...generally acknowledged to be the first steamship to cross the North Atlantic entirely...steam propulsion , though the Canadian steamship Royal William , which crossed in 1833...
SIC 4499 Water Transportation Services, Not Elsewhere Classified
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of American Industries ...canal operation; ship cleaning, except hold cleaning; and steamship leasing. Establishments primarily engaged in ship hold cleaning...surveying and classifying ships and marine equipment; and steamship leasing. These duties usually are performed dockside and...
Great Britain
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History ...designed by I. K. Brunel . It was intended by the Great Western Steamship Company as a sister ship to Brunel's Great Western , which...wooden-hulled paddle steamer in 1837 and became the first steamship to enter commercial trans-Atlantic service. But Brunel...
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...In 1835 Brunel suggested, half in jest, a transatlantic steamship service. The idea found support, and the outcome was the...1845) was a 3,600-ton iron-hulled, screw-driven steamship. Brunel's last great ship was the Great Eastern (1854...
Sir Samuel Cunard
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...placed four ships in operation, establishing the first regular steamship service between the continents. This was the beginning of the noted...Transatlantic: Samuel Cunard, Isambard Brunel, and the Great Atlantic Steamship (2003).
steam propulsion
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea ...the Charlotte Dundas . The first transatlantic voyage by a steamship, the Savannah , took place in 1819, but she had to sail...1825, and it was not until 1838 that the Sirius proved a steamship could cross the Atlantic under power. Even so, the inefficiency...

Dictionary entries related to "steamship"

Coastwise Steamship Lines
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History COASTWISE STEAMSHIP LINES COASTWISE STEAMSHIP LINES. American steamers made coastwise voyages as early...Mexico by Charles Morgan in 1835, while the United States Mail Steamship Company opened a regular line from New York to Charleston...
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 ...sacrificed for speed, and to the establishment of subsidized steamship lines converging from New York and San Francisco upon the...the mail steamers of Samuel Cunard led Congress to support steamship lines to Bremen and Le Havre. Finally, Congress gave even...
Colman, Ronald
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...wounded at Messines and decorated with Mons medal, invalided out of service. Career: 1908—office boy with British Steamship Company while performing with Bancroft Amateur Dramatic Society; 1916–20—on London stage; 1919...
Jennings, Talbot
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Richard Collins, then scripted the film for Bounty director Frank Lloyd. The result was a superior drama about the first steamship to make the Atlantic crossing. Jennings returned to Metro to write two of Spencer Tracy's finest vehicles, King Vidor...
Panama Canal
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...little happened during the next forty years to advance construction of a waterway outside of the creation of railroads and steamship enterprises, people still dreamed about a trans-isthmian canal. The great French engineer Ferdinand de Lesseps, builder...
Hemp
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...about 74,000 tons, of which Kentucky produced 40,000 tons and Missouri 20,000 tons. Thereafter, the advent of the steamship, the substitution of steel for hemp cordage, and the introduction of artificial fibers lessened demand. American production...
Konkoly Thege, Miklós von
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...the Ph. D. in astronomy in 1862. He then returned to Hungary and earned a captain ’ s certificate on the Danube steamship line. In 1869 Konkoly Thege establlished a small astronomical observatory at his country estate at Ó gyalla. In...
Kropotkin, Petr Alekseevich
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...volcanoes. In Zapiski Sibrskogo otdelo Russkogo geograficheskogo obshchestva , 8 (1865), he described this journey and his steamship voyage from the mouth of the Sungari River to the town of Kirin. During the summer of 1865, Kropotkin traveled at his own...
stoker
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English stok·er / ˈstōkər / • n. a person who tends the furnace on a steamship or steam locomotive. ∎  a mechanical device for supplying fuel to a firebox or furnace, esp. on a steam locomotive.

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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...