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 92
uried herself, and the engines being too powerful for her hullshe worked herself to pieces. Eventually she was broken up. Hersister ship. La Plata, was sold before she was completed, toreplace the burnt Amazon, running to the West Indies. And now at length the Cunards resolved to abandon wood, and… … THE CUNARD LINE AND ITS COMPETITORS. 73 favourite with passengers and distanced everything. Her dimen-sions were 376 x 45 • 3 x 29 • 9,3300 tons gross, 2079 net; cylindersicx> inches, with 10 feet stroke, 917 H.P. nominal, but 4000 indi-cated, consuming no less than ijo tons of coal per day. But…
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