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THE
HISTORY OF STEAM NAVIGATION.
[Illustration: LIVERPOOL IN 1837.]
THE
HISTORY
OF
STEAM NAVIGATION.
BY
JOHN KENNEDY.
_WITH NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS._
_PUBLISHED BY_
CHARLES BIRCHALL, LIMITED,
7 & 9, VICTORIA STREET, LIVERPOOL.
1903.
C. TINLING AND CO.,
PRINTERS,
VICTORIA STREET, LIVERPOOL.
PREFACE.
[Illustration: Decoration]
The historical information contained in this volume has been
in a large measure collected from the Press of the period, and
chiefly from the _Times_, _Liverpool Mercury_, _Glasgow Herald_,
and _Chambers’ Journal_. Lindsay’s “_Merchant Shipping_,” a most
admirable work, has also been consulted, as well as other works of
a similar nature. The name of the authority quoted has been given
in most cases, but, where I have been unable to do so, I trust this
general acknowledgment will suffice.
Some of the chapters in Part II. were contributed in 1901 to the
_Journal of Commerce_, as part of a series of articles on “Historical
Steamship Companies.” Chapter XXII. in Part I. was published in the
May number (1903) of the _Wide World Magazine_, under the title of
“The Strange Case of the FERRET.”
I take this opportunity of thanking the Directors, Managers, Agents,
and other officials of the various Steamship Companies referred
to, by all of whom, and at all times, I have been treated with the
utmost courtesy. I desire also to express my appreciation of the
uniform kindness and assistance received from the Librarians of the
Bootle, Glasgow, and Liverpool Libraries in placing at my disposal
publications, some of which were printed nearly a hundred years ago.
JOHN KENNEDY.
LIVERPOOL, _20th November, 1903_.
CONTENTS.
PART I.
PAGE
CHAPTER I.—Inventors and Alleged Inventors prior to 1807.—De Garay
(1543)—Papin (1690)—Savory, Newcomen (1705)—Hulls (1736)—Abbé
Arnal and the Marquis de Jouffroy (1781)—Fitch (1783)—Miller and
Taylor (1788)—Symington (1801)—The CHARLOTTE DUNDAS (1803)—Bell
(1803) 1
CHAPTER II.—Fulton (1807)—The CLERMONT (1807), the first passenger
steamboat in the world—Narrative of her first voyage—Steam
Navigation in Canadian waters—First steamers on the St.
Lawrence—The ACCOMMODATION (1809)—SWIFTSURE, CAR OF COMMERCE
(1813)—QUEBEC (1817) 7