(GNTC) by grouping all Scandinavian interests. At that time, the Russian project to the US across the Bering Strait was still in progress, and had been since 1865 when the Russian–Western Union agreement was signed. Following the success of the transatlantic cable, the Russians diverted the ...
Departing Steamships Trading Company Managing Director Rupert Bray says he is still bullish about Papua New Guinea, despite the “underwhelming” economic performance during his six years in the country. Bray and Chris Daniells, who replaced him as Steamships MD on July 1, granted...
Whether this was true or not is still a matter for debate, but the first steamer of practical use was withdrawn, and lay in a creek off the canal for many years before she was broken up. The trials of the Charlotte Dundas had attracted the attention of the American Robert Fulton, who ...
the cylinder, where it did its work, and then passed direct to the condenser. However, in the compound it passes at very high pressure into a small cylinder and thence by expansion into a large one, and thence, in the triples, to a still larger one, before it passes into the ...
In the half-century after 1850, the size of passenger ships grew more than tenfold. Cunard led the way, launching the Parthia and the Bactavia in 1868. As steel replaced iron, ships grew still larger. A new generation of superliners began with the Lusitania in 1907, the centennial of ...