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 82
THE CUNARD LINE AND ITS COMPETITORS. 6l of the Great Western Company, who offered at once to run a lineof steamships to Halifax if the Government would grant a subsidyfor the carriage of the mails. Cunard, hearing of the efforts ofHowe and Haliburton, met them in London with his own… … HON. JOSEPH HOWE. 24th August Howe prepared a letter on the subject addressed toLord Glenelg, signed by himself and Mr. Crane.^ The outcome of it was, that in October the Admiralty advertisedfor tenders. The Great Western Steamship Company tendered and antici-pated no serious opposition, but, much…
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