Discoveries and inventions of the nineteenth century (1905)
Routledge, Robert · London : G. Routledge and Sons · leaf 174
the steamers which until lately ran between Dover andCalais, Folkestone and Boulogne, and other Channel ports, were so small,was because the harbours on either side could not receive vessels with sucha draught as the fine steamers, for example, which run on the Holyheadand Kingston line. Now, the… … The Castalia in Dovef Harbom. was equalled in few passenger ships afloat, except the Great Eastern andsome of the Atlantic steamers. The vessel was 290 ft. in length, with anextreme breadth of 60 ft. The four spacious and elegantly-fitted saloons—two of which were 60 ft. by 36 ft., and two 28 ft.…
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