The History Of Steam Navigation

Excerpt from The History of Steam Navigation Some of the chapters in Part II. Were contributed in 1901 to the Journal of as part of a series of articles on Historical Steamship Companies. Chapter XXII. In Part I. Was published in the May number (1903) of the Wide World Magazine, under the title of The Strange Case of the. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Founded in 1838, and operating to South America from Liverpool, the Pacific Steam Navigation Co. was the first to operate steamships in the Pacific.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.