The History of North Atlantic steam navigation with some account of early ships and shipowners (1896)
Fry, Henry · New York : C. Scribner's sons · leaf 160
Caledonia, Cambria, Britannia, Albion, etc. Theywere only 350 to 450 tons register, but they were full-rigged ships, THE ALLAlf LINE. IS? with ice-blocks round their bows,, and they often pushed throughthe spring ice, the great ambition of their captains being to arrive first ship with the spring… … SIR HUGH ALLAN. enterprise, and tenacity of purpose. In 1852, about the time ofthe completion of the Atlantic and St. Lawrence Railway, betweenMontreal and Portland, seeing the success of David Tods ironscrew steamship City of Glasgow in the New York trade, hedecided that the time had arrived for…
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