CHAPTER VIII.—The St. George Steampacket Co.—Steam Yacht

HERO—Liverpool steampackets highly commended in Parliamentary

Report—AARON MANBY, first iron steamer—First steamer Hull

to Continent—City of Dublin Steampacket Co.—Dublin and Liverpool

Steam Navigation Co.—H.M.S. LIGHTNING—General Steam

Navigation Co.—Belfast Steampacket Co.—Keen competition on

the Glasgow and Belfast station—Advertising extraordinary—Messrs.

G. & J. Burns commence business 1825—Messrs.

MacBrayne’s Highland Service—Competition in the Liverpool and

Dublin trade—First steamer London to Hamburg—First steamer

England to India; rapid increase of steampackets—Hostile meeting

at Swansea—The ERIN—Admiralty Mail Steampacket Service

between Liverpool and Kingstown established—City of Dublin

Steampacket Co. establish a service between the United Kingdom

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