Book contents
- Coal, Steam and Ships
- Science in History
- Coal, Steam and Ships
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: Coal, Steam and Ships
- Part I North Atlantic Steam
- Part II Westward for Panama
- Part III Eastward for India and China
- 12 ‘Built on a Large, Commodious and Powerful Scale’
- 13 ‘So Great a Cloud of Obloquy and Mistrust’
- 14 ‘A More Desirable Result in the Performance of the Vessel’
- Part IV Engineering an Oceanic Economy
- Epilogue: ‘The Sovereignty of the Seas’
- Bibliography
- Index
14 - ‘A More Desirable Result in the Performance of the Vessel’
P&O's Mail Steamers in Action
from Part III - Eastward for India and China
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 June 2018
- Coal, Steam and Ships
- Science in History
- Coal, Steam and Ships
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: Coal, Steam and Ships
- Part I North Atlantic Steam
- Part II Westward for Panama
- Part III Eastward for India and China
- 12 ‘Built on a Large, Commodious and Powerful Scale’
- 13 ‘So Great a Cloud of Obloquy and Mistrust’
- 14 ‘A More Desirable Result in the Performance of the Vessel’
- Part IV Engineering an Oceanic Economy
- Epilogue: ‘The Sovereignty of the Seas’
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Coal, Steam and ShipsEngineering, Enterprise and Empire on the Nineteenth-Century Seas, pp. 263 - 282Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2018