Pacific Steam Navigation Company

Pacific Steam Navigation Company
Author: Ian Collard
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2014-02-15
Genre: Transportation
ISBN: 1445635054

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

Steamboats on the Western Rivers

Steamboats on the Western Rivers
Author: Louis C. Hunter
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 721
Release: 2012-04-30
Genre: Transportation
ISBN: 0486157784

Richly detailed definitive account covers every aspect of steamboat's development — from construction, equipment, and operation to races, collisions, rise of competition, and ultimate decline of steamboat transportation.

Coal, Steam and Ships

Coal, Steam and Ships
Author: Crosbie Smith
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 473
Release: 2018-07-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107196728

An innovative account of the trials and tribulations of first-generation Victorian mail steamship lines, their passengers and the public.