Excerpt from Ports and Docks, Their History, Working, and National Importance Suez Canal, a marked and rapid development took place in the trade of the port, and more especially in the character of the vessels bringing it. For whereas in 1860, of the vessels which entered the port, were sailing ships, with a total of tons, as against steamships of tons; in 1901 the sailing vessels had fallen to in number, with tons; whilst the steamers had increased to with a total of tons (vide table on p. And whereas the average tonnage of the steamships was in 1860 only 326 tons, this average had in 1901 increased to 974 tons. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.