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Engines The Second Steamer The Charlotte Dundas American Enterprise James Rumsey's Oar-boats worked 

 by Steam Poor Fitch Before his Age Robert Fulton His Torpedo Experiments Wonderful Submarine Boat- 

 Experiments at Brest and Deal His first Steam-boat Breaks in Pieces Trip of the Clermont, the first American 

 Steamer Opposition to his Vessels A Pendulum Boat The first Steam War-shipHenry Bell's Comet ... 77 



CHAPTER VI. 



THE HISTORY OF SHIPS AND SHIPPING INTERESTS (continued). 



The Clyde and its Ship-building Interests From Henry Bell to Modern Ship-builders The First Royal Naval Steamer 

 The First regular Sea-going Steamer The Revolution in Ship-building The Iron Age "Will Iron Float?" 

 The Invention of the Screw-propeller Ericsson, Smith, and Woodcroft American 'Cuteness Captain Stockton 

 and his Boat The First Steamer to Cross the Atlantic Voyages of the Sirius and Great Western The In- 

 ternational Struggle The Collins and Cunard Lines Fate of the Arctic The Pacific never heard of more- 

 Why the Cunard Company has been Successful Splendid Discipline on board their Vessels The Fleets that 

 leave the Mersey 97 



CHAPTER VII. 



THE HISTORY OF SHIPS AND SHIPPING INTERESTS (continued). 



A Contrast Floating Palaces and " Coffin-ships " Mr. Plimsoll's Appeal His Philanthropic Efforts Use of Old 

 Charts Badly-constructed Ships A Doomed Ship Owner's Gains by her Loss A Sensible Deserter Over- 

 loading The Widows and Fatherless -Other Risks of the Sailor's Life Scurvy Improper Cargoes" Unclassed 

 Vessels " " Lloyd's " and its History . .112 



. CHAPTER VIII. 



THE HISTORY OF SHIPS AND SHIPPING INTERESTS (continued.) 



The Largest Ship in the World History of the Great Eastern Why she was Built Brunei and Scott Russell Story 

 of the Launch Powerful Machinery Employed Christened by Miss Hope Failure to move her more than a 

 few feet A Sad Accident Launching by Inches Afloat at last Dimensions Accommodations The Grand 

 Saloon The Paddle-wheel and Screw Engines First Sea Trip Speed In her first Gale Serious Explosion on 

 Board off Hastings Proves a fine Sea-boat Drowning of her Captain and others First Transatlantic Voyage 

 Defects in Boilers and Machinery Behaves splendidly in mid-ocean Grand Reception in New York 

 Subsequent Trips Used as a Troop-ship to Canada Carried out 2,600 Soldiers An eventful Passenger Trip- 

 Caught in a Cyclone Hurricane Her Paddles almost wrenched away Rudder Disabled Boats carried away 

 Shifting of Heavy Cargo The Leviathan a Gigantic Waif on the Ocean Return to Cork 129 



CHAPTER IX. 



THE HISTORY OF SHIPS AND SHIPPING INTERESTS (continued). 



The Ironclad Question One of the Topics of the Day What is to be their Value in Warfare?- Story of the Dummy 

 Ironclad- -Two real Ironclads vanquished by it Experience on board an American Monitor Visit of the 

 Miantonoma to St. John's -Her Tour round the World Her Turrets and interior Arrangements Firing off the 

 Big Guns Inside the Turret "Prepare!" Effects of the Firing A Boatswain's-mate's Opinion The Monitor 

 goes round the World safely Few of the Original American Ironclads left English Ironclads The Warrior 

 Various Types Iron-built Wood-built Wood-covered The Greatest Result yet attained, the Inflexible Cir- 

 cular Ironclads The "Garde Cotes" Coat of Ironclads The Torpedo Question The Marquis of Worcester's 

 Inventions Bishop Wilkins' Subaqueous Ark Fulton's Experiments A Frightened Audience A Hulk Blown 

 Up Government Aid to Fulton The Argus and her " Crinoline "Torpedoes successfully foiled Their use during 

 the American War Brave Lieut. Cushing The Albcmarle Destroyed -Modern Torpedoes: the "Lay;" the 

 "Whitehead" Probable Manner of using in an Engagement The Ram and its Power 138 



CHAPTER X. 



THE LIGHTHOUSE AND ITS HISTORY. 



The Lighthouse Our most noted one in Danger The Eddystone Undermined The Ancient History of Lighthouses 

 The Pharos of Alexandria Roman Light Towers at Boulogne and Dover Fire-beacons and Pitch-pots 

 The Tower of Cordouan The First Eddystone Lighthouse W T instanley and his Eccentricities Difficulties of 

 Building his Wooden Structure -Resembles a Pagoda The Structure Swept away with its Inventor Another 

 Silk Mercer in the Field Rudyerd's Lighthouse Built of Wood-Stood for Fifty Years Creditable Action of 

 Louis XIV. Lighthouse Keeper alone with a Corpse The Horrors of a Month Rudyerd's Tower destroyed by 

 Fire Smeaton's Early History Employed to Build the present Eddystone Resolves on a Stone Tower- - 

 Employment of "Dove-tailing" in Masonry Difficulties of Landing on the Rock Peril incurred by the Work- 

 menThe First Season's Work Smeaton always in the Post of Danger Watching the Rock from Plymouth 

 Hoe The Last Season Vibrations of the Tower in a Storm Has stood for 120 years Joy of the Mariner when 

 " The Eddystone s in Sight ! "Lights in the English Channel 150 



