Every boy's book of railways and steamships (1911)
Protheroe, Ernest · London : Religious Tract Society · leaf 400
last named that occurred oneof those incidents that make us proud of our race.The vessel was making a record run, and in twenty-four hours expected to reach Queenstown. Shenarrowly escaped making Davy Joness lockerinstead. There was a frightful crash; steambelched out of the engine-room; the ship… … THE ATLANTIC FERRY 295 the ponderous connecting rod was battering themachinery to pieces, and even shattering the steelbulkheads. Any moment the bottom of the shipmight be perforated and endanger hundreds ofsouls. No one appeared to know exactly what hadhappened; but some terrible peril was…
Railroads · Steamboats
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