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 96
Three Brothers. She is now a coal hulkat Gibraltar. To return to the Cunards. They were not altogether satisfiedwith the Persia. She proved weak in the bilges, and it cost£,^o,ooo to strengthen them. She was, too, very hard upon coals.So they determined to surpass her on the same lines.… … THE CUNARD LINE AND ITS COMPETITORS. 77 Mr. Hodder, the biographer of Sir George Burns, says, trulyenough, It was the policy of the company that others shouldexperimentalise, and when the novel principle had been proved byindubitable tests, then, and not till then, to introduce it into theirnext…
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