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 230
ee millionmarks ($750,000). The money was procured and two new steam-ships were built, increasing the fleet to four steamships and eightsailing vessels. The directors plans were then so modest that at a generalmeeting they said : In view of these great proportions a fiirtherextension of the… … THE HAMBURG-AMERICAN PACKET COMPANY. 211 Steamships on the route, and were thus enabled to m3,ke the lineto New York a fortnightly one. At the same time they despatchedsome of the boats to New Orleans. On its 20th anniversary, in 1867, the company owned thirteenlarge Transatlantic steamships,…
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