By Ambrose Greenway
This new e-book, evocatively illustrated with a powerful number of greater than three hundred pictures, starts off with the institution of routes round Europe and around the North Atlantic within the 1850s. now not until eventually the Liverpool send proprietor and engineer, Alfred Holt, built high-pressure compound engines have been coal-powered vessels capable of steam extra afield, to the some distance East and Australia. the hole of the Suez Canal in 1869 cemented the dominance of the shipment liner and in simple terms with the looks of the 1st box send within the Nineteen Fifties was once that dominance eventually overthrown.
With its informative introductory texts and plentiful photos, this e-book will attract send fans all over the world and to all those that mourn the passing of the golden age of the steamship.
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