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 90
c. The Arcticwas considered the finest ship. She was designed by GsorgeSteers, of New York (of America yacht fame), and built byW. H. Brown, of New York, at a cost of $700,000. They weregood models, with solid frames of live oak, planked with pitch pine,and strengthened with diagonal iron straps,… … COLLINS SS. ATLANTIC. 95 inches, with 9 feet stroke, 800 H.P. nominal, and the boilerscarried 17 5 lbs. of steam and consumed 87 tons of coal per day.^ Mr. Faron was sent to England to spy out the Cunard Com-panys engines and boilers, and nothing was left undone to ensuresuccess. The cabins, too,…
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