Identifier: everyboysbookofr00prot (find matches)
Title: Every boy's book of railways and steamships
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Protheroe, Ernest
Subjects: Railroads Steamboats
Publisher: London : Religious Tract Society
Contributing Library: Boston College Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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NavigationCompany, and three vessels form the Mississippiand Dominion Steamship Company. Of fourteensteamships only two exceed 9000 tons, and all ofthem are engaged in passenger and cargo traffic. On April 19, 1910, the Englishman(5257 tons) brought into Queenstown harbourthe Wilson and Furness Leyland steamshipAngHan (5532 tons), which she had towed for800 miles across the Atlantic. During the wholeof the nine days of the tow the hawser never parted.The strain on the Englishman, however, wasso great upon one occasion that the bitts weretorn from the vessel. It was six hours beforethe ships could be reunited. In the meantimetemporary repairs were efiected to the Anglians broken tailshaft, and the vessel was able to makesome way under its own steam, and so lessen the Englishmans burden. On the Englishman were 470 cattle; and owing to the prolongedvoyage they ate up all the fodder three days be-fore Queenstown was reached. Happily Quaker oats formed a big part of the cargo, and on these
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THE ATLANTIC FERRY 297 the beasts were fed, greatly to their satisfaction.When the vessel reached port the cattle went backregretfully to hay. The Red Star Line has regular services fromAntwerp to New York, Boston, Philadelphia, andBaltimore, calling at Dover. Of ten vessels, thesmallest of which is 6848 tons burden, theLapland is not the largest, but claims to bein the front rank of ships crossing the Atlantic.She was constructed by Messrs. Harland and Wolff,and is by far the largest vessel sailing under theBelgian flag. She is over 620 feet long, 70 feetbeam, 50 feet deep and 18,694 tons gross register,and is designed to carry a large quantity of cargoand over 2500 passengers. Another of the allied companies is the LeylandLine of Liverpool, with 42 steamers with anaggregate tonnage of 240,000. They carry afairly large cargo and only first-class passengers.Its chief service is Liverpool to Boston. No account of the Atlantic Ferry would becomplete without reference to the two greatGer

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