History of merchant shipping and ancient commerce (1874)
Lindsay, William Schaw · London : Sampson Low · leaf 510
e West Indies. Unlike the vessels in theservice of the East India Company, her capacity forcargo was considerably in excess of her registeredtonnage, and her complement of crew less than one-half in proportion to her tonnage. Nor were thesevessels inferior to them, either in speed or other… … 492 MERCHANT SHIPPING. by increasing the length of their vessels in proportionto the breadth. Hitherto vessels, for instance, of twenty-five feetbeam, seldom exceeded one hundred feet in length,keel and forerake, and although the Americans, intheir once famous Baltimore clippers, set the ex-ample…
Commerce · Ships and shipping · Merchant marine
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