"Charlotte Dundas," was successfully employed towing 

 barges in 1802, Fulton's "Clermont" was the first steamer 

 employed for regular passenger traffic in 1807, for it was 

 not till 1812 that the first regular steam passenger boat 

 made its appearance on the Clyde, the "Comet" in that 

 year running regularly between Glasgow and Greenock at 

 a speed of five miles an hour. The " Comet " was 42 feet 

 long and 11 feet beam with a four horse power engine, 

 placed on one side of the boat and a small wrought iron 

 boiler on the other side. 



In 1819 the "Savannah" crossed the Atlantic; this 

 vessel was 380 tons and had been built as a sailing ship, 

 but was fittnl with auxiliary steam power, the paddle- 

 wheels being designed so that they could be unshipped 

 when the vessel was under sail. Under steam she obtained 

 a speed of six knots, but the engines were only used on 18 

 days during the trip of 35 days, and after this voyage the 

 the engines and boiler were removed. The first iron paddle 

 steamer, the "Aaron Manby," crossed the English Channel 

 in 1821. The "Sirius," which left London on the 4th of 

 April, 1838, arrived at New York on 22nd, after a voyage 

 of seventeen days, and was the first steamer to cross the 

 Atlantic from Great Britain, obtaining this distinction 

 only by a few days, for the " Great Western " a wooden 

 steamer of 212 feet long, 38£ feet beam and 23i feet deep, 

 built under the advice of Mr. J. K. Brunei, left Bristol 8th 

 April and arrived at New York only a few hours after the 



In 1852 the P. and O. Company undertook the first 

 regular mail service to Australia, running once every two 

 months via Singapore ; in 1864 the service was increased 

 t/^pne sailing a month, and in 1874 arrangements were 

 mftdejby which the mails were to be carried through the 

 Sriez,Gtmal which had been opened for traffic a few years 



