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	HCGL Manuscripts: GLMS-6, J. A. Paisley/Morrow Steamship Company
		Records from the J. Paisley Steamship Company and the Morrow Steamship Company were acquired by Bowling Green State University on July 9, 1973 and transferred to the Historical Collections of the Great Lakes in 1976.
		The J. Paisley Steamship Company and the Morrow Steamship Company were founded in the early twentieth century to participate in the Great Lakes coal trade.
		The J. Paisley Steamship Company and the Morrow Steamship Company were merged with the Oglebay Norton fleet and ceased to operate under their own names.
	www.bgsu.edu /colleges/library/hcgl/glms0006.html (675 words)

	About Steamship Mutual (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Steamship London was established in London in 1909, and underwrote mutual PandI and Freight, Demurrage and Defence cover (FDandD) until 1974.
		Thereafter Steamship London continued to run-off its own claims and to act as the London Representative of the Managers of the Bermuda Club until 20th February 2000 when the decision was taken to re-establish it as an active underwriter.
		Steamship Bermuda was incorporated in Bermuda by statute in 1974 and began to underwrite PandI risks on 20th February 1975.
	www.simsl.com /about-steamship.html (362 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for steamship
		a compartment in a steamship from which the boiler fires are stoked.
		One of the pioneers of the regular transatlantic passenger service, he founded the steamship company which still bears his name with the aid of a contract to carry the mail between Britain and Canada.
		Steamship Authority Implements Avamar Axion to Reduce Backup Window; Avamar Axion to Provide Data Redundancy Between Two Geographically Distributed Sites.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=steamship (596 words)

	steamship. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		The first crossing under steam power alone was made in 1838, when two British steamship companies sent rival ships to New York within a few days of each other; the Great Western made the trip in 15 days, arriving a few hours after the Sirius, which had left England 4 days before her.
		The first seagoing vessel to be fitted with a screw propeller was the Archimedes (1840); the Great Britain (1845) was the first large iron steamship driven by a screw propeller to cross the Atlantic.
		By the late 1850s the screw propeller was conceded to be superior to paddlewheels, and the steamship began to supplant the sailing ship.
	www.bartleby.com /65/st/steamshi.html (767 words)

	Rhode Island Postal History - 1866 Steamship Mail - Havana, Cuba - (Steamship 10 Marking) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The routes sailed by the contract steamships were considered to be "Post Roads" by the USPS and included the Caribbean, Central and South America.
		The initial steamship rates established in 1847 and in effect from 1848 to 1851 varied by port of origin.
		Steamship markings were discontinued when the UPU rates came into effect.
	www.rhodeisland-philatelic.com /rhodeisland/stampless87.htm (540 words)

	Titanic Steamship Tin Reproduction with Steam Boiler (Site not responding. Last check: )
		A tin steamship loved by people of all ages since the 1920's.
		The Titanic steamships forward propulsion is brought about by steam pulsing out of tubes at the rear end of the ship.
		The steam is generated when water is drawn into the tubes and hits the hot water boiler inside the ship.
	www.puttputtboats.com /titanic.htm (206 words)

	Baltimore Mail Steamship Company
		At that time, the Roosevelt Steamship Company, presided over by Cermit Roosevelt, and the International Mercantile Marine Company, whose president was P. Franklin, were closely allied.
		They founded the Baltimore Mail Steamship Company, which was incorporated in the State of Maryland on 7 July 1930.
		Meanwhile, the Company had applied to the Maritime Commission to run the five ships in the coastal trade between New York and San Francisco via the Panama Canal as replacements for the California, Pennsylvania and Verginia of the Panama Pacific Line wich were running for Moore McCormack between New York and South America.
	www.theshipslist.com /ships/lines/baltimore.htm (291 words)

	House Flags of U.S. Shipping Companies: P
		The Pacific Mail Steamship Company was founded in 1848 by William Aspinwall of the firm of Howland and Aspinwall to execute a contract to carry mail from the Isthmus of Panama to the newly-annexed territory of California.
		Peninsular and Occidental Steamship Co, Jacksonville, FL This American version of the PandO was formed by combining the ships of the Plant Line (founded 1885) and those belonging to Henry Flagler.
		The Permanente Steamship Company was an offshoot of his shipbuilding endeavors; it was apparently active for some years from the late 1940s into the 60s.
	flagspot.net /flags/us~hfpa.html (1719 words)

	American Steamship Company History
		By the end of the decade, American Steamship Company’s fleet consists of 31 vessels and annual capacity exceeds 30 million net tons.
		American Steamship Company becomes the first to launch an extensive new building program under the 1970 amendment to the Maritime Act.
		The acquisition grows American Steamship’s fleet to 18 vessels and transforms the Company into the largest domestic provider of waterborne self-unloader transportation.
	www.americansteamship.com /history.html (653 words)

	House flags of Canada Steamship Lines Inc.
		Shown on the Maritime Timetables site, the flag of the Quebec Steamship Co., a horizontal triband red-white-red, a blue vertical stripe (having the width of the others) laid over them in the centre.
		The steamship pass in question shows a long blue swallowtail bearing a red-and-white device I cannot quite distinguish.
		The house flag had a red cross throughout; the upper hoist and lower fly quarters were white, the other ones blue; letters N and N were placed on the upper quarters, and C and O on the lower, all counterchanged.
	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/ca~hfcsl.html (1041 words)

	Steamship
		There is a little controversy about what was the first steamship to cross the Atlantic because many did so with a combination of sail and auxiliary steam engines.
		Now on "standby", as the Steamship Authority calls it, we are forced to wait and wait and wait.
		Farnam complete the building of his railroad bridge across the Mississippi River but a river packet crashes into it, resulting in a disaster and a law suit.
	www.suite101.com /reference/steamship (332 words)

	Antique Steamship Trunk
		a steamship that came on in 1860 and served for twenty-five years
		for being the fasted steamship in the word during its day.
		are the original owners brass name tag and the steamship boarding label.
	www.eagletrunks.com /steamertrunkdetails/EA001102Details.html (186 words)

	NOAA Ocean Explorer: Steamship Portland
		The Boston newspapers carried the news of the Steamship Portland's demise during "The Portland Gale" in the fall of 1898.
		On Nov. 26, 1898, the Steamship Portland left India Wharf in Boston for Portland, Maine, on a regularly scheduled run.
		None of the 192 passengers and crew survived the massive storm that wreaked havoc on New England's coast -- a storm that was later dubbed "The Portland Gale" after this tragic loss.
	www.oceanexplorer.noaa.gov /explorations/03portland/welcome.html (558 words)

	Beef - Cuts
		Often referred to as a "Steamship Round", the #166B is fabricated from the #158 Beef Round, Primal.
		The tougher shank and heel portions are removed from the back of the round, leaving a portion of the shank bone exposed.
		The Steamship Round weighs between 30 to 50 pounds.
	www.beeffoodservice.com /Cuts/Info.aspx?Code=29 (223 words)

	RARE Vintage STEAMSHIP Lighter Chrome and Bakelite Marked OCCUPIED JAPAN Mint in Original Box! - BK205
		A rare Vintage Steamship lighter is presented in chrome and Bakelite that is marked OCCUPIED JAPAN and is in the original box.
		Circa 1940’s, this vintage tobacciana table lighter is in the shape of a steamship.
		The base of the vintage steamship is chrome as is the very top portion.
	www.rubylane.com /shops/evelynnesoldiesbutgoodies/item/BK205 (423 words)

	Canada Steamship Lines \| Photos from the Fleet
		From Dartmouth to Duluth, the ships of the Canada Steamship Lines travel into the heart of the continent and back again countless times.
		In the process, Canada Steamship Lines mariners come across many interesting, amusing or even inspirational sights - some of which have been captured in photos.
		Any boat watcher with a favourite picture related to the Canada Steamship Lines fleet is encouraged to send it for consideration (in.jpg format) to fleetphoto@csl.ca.
	www.csl.ca /new/gallery.html (113 words)

	Amazon.com: steamship (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Perils of the Atlantic: Steamship Disasters, 1850 to the Present by William H. Flayhart (Hardcover - Jun 9, 2003)
		Increasingly, such steamships were identified with places and...
		Memorial of the New York mail steamship company of the city of New York, to the Senate and House of representatives of the United States, on ocean steam navigation.
	www.amazon.com /s?ie=UTF8&keywords=steamship&tag=acronymfinder-20&index=blended&link_code=qs&page=1 (481 words)

	Pacific Mail Steamship Company - Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum
		The Pacific Mail Steamship Company contracted with the U.S. government to carry the mail from Panama north to San Francisco by ship.
		The Pacific Mail Steamship Company was ideally positioned to cash in on the Gold Rush of 1849.
		As a result of this and the high quality of its service, the company became both an important part of the history of the American West as well as one of the most profitable enterprises of its era, with an annual return on investment that ran as high as 30%.
	cprr.org /Museum/Ephemera/Pacific_Mail_Steamship_Co.html (511 words)

	Essex Image Vault - Steamship Collection
		Culled from an extensive collection of steamship photographs, the images chosen for Essex Image Vault’s steamship section stand out for their beauty.
		Enjoy the lines of the ships, appreciate the different moods of the sea, or search for a vessel of particular significance to your family.
		Remarkably composed and uniquely evocative, Essex Image Vault’s steamship photographs are among the finest of their kind in the world.
	www.esseximages.com /steamships.html (77 words)

	Best Assigns 'A-' Rating to Steamship Mutual (London)
		Steamship Bermuda, in turn, reinsures all its retained risks with the Trust, where the premiums are invested.
		Prospectively, Steamship London is expected to accumulate significant free reserves from operating profits generated while the company is protected by a stop-loss reinsurance policy provided by Steamship Bermuda.
		The rating agency also noted that the "volatility inherent in Steamship Bermuda's risk-adjusted capitalisation applies to Steamship London due to its dependence upon reinsurance protection provided by Steamship Bermuda.
	www.insurancejournal.com /news/international/2004/02/20/36940.htm (370 words)

	Antipixel \| Blog \| Osaka Steamship #5
		An exquisitely turned out creature who could be a young woman or yet but a girl has been amusing herself at play while awaiting someone’s return by sea.
		She sits on the verandah, her Osaka Steamship kite propped against the house behind her, in a luminous and cloyingly well-composed image of domestic warmth.
		And now, thanks to Osaka Steamship and her awaited one’s return, that landscape will be complete.
	www.antipixel.com /blog/archives/2006/09/02/osaka_steamship_5.html (489 words)

	Great Western Steamship Company
		In the spring, she was retuned to Liverpool and sold to Gibbs, Bright and Co. where she sailed in the Melbourne trade for about twenty-one years.
		This company was established in 1871 as the Great Western Steamship Line and became the Great Western Steamship Company, Limited in 1881.
		They sailed Bristol (later Avonmouth) to New York and in 1879 added a weekly run to Montreal, but the appearance of competition from the Bristol City Line on this route caused the run to be terminated in 1884.
	www.theshipslist.com /ships/lines/greatwestern.html (606 words)

	Steamship & Cruise Line Collectibles Page 2 ; Drexel Grapevine Antiques
		Quebec Steamship Co., Ltd. Captain Peter J. Fraser.
		Someone was nice enough to e-mail me and let me know the name of the artist is Ada Peacock who was commissioned to do the artwork for the steamship line.
		Not sure which of the ships that bore the Bremen name this came from.
	www.drexelantiques.com /steamship2.html (672 words)

	Loch Katrine Steamship Sir Walter Scott - Steamer on Loch Katrine (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Loch Katrine Steamship Sir Walter Scott is a major attraction to visitors in the Trossachs but few realise the story behind the old steam ship which has plied these waters for over 100 years.
		The steamship company are also running a new boat for this season - the 28 seater 'Ellens Isle' which will provide 45 minute cruises round the islands at the east end of the loch.
		She offers a more intimate view of the Loch as she is able to go where the steamer cannot.
	www.incallander.co.uk /steam.htm (1387 words)

	Pacific Steamship Company (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Another important body of records came to Claremont as a consequence of the hard of work of the late John H. Kemble, Professor of History, Pomona College.
		When the Pacific Steamship Company went out of business in 1936, the surviving records of the company were offered to the Claremont Colleges if someone would go to Seattle to sort the papers and select what was to be kept.
		This collection has had additions through gifts of materials from the grandson of the founder of the Pacific Steamship Company.
	voxlibris.claremont.edu /sc/collections/hm/pacific_steam.asp (87 words)

	steamship — Infoplease.com
		steamship, watercraft propelled by a steam engine or a steam turbine.
		Steamship lines should start looking over their shoulders at parcel carriers, according to IBM Business Consulting Services.(Management......
		Two steamship lines have launched trans-Pacific service to Central America.(Management UPDATE: AN EXECUTIVE SUMMARY OF INDUSTRY NEWS)...
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/history/A0846588.html (130 words)

	Civilian Ships--Maui (Passenger Steamship, 1917)
		Maui, a 9730-ton (gross) passenger steamship, was built in 1917 at San Francisco, California.
		After less than a year's service on her intended route between the U.S. west coast and Hawaii she was taken over by the Navy in March 1918 and commissioned as USS Maui (ID # 1514).
		This page features and provides links to our only views of the passenger steamship Maui, which was USS Maui (ID 1514) during 1918-1919 and USAT Maui in 1941-1946.
	www.history.navy.mil /photos/sh-civil/civsh-m/maui.htm (589 words)

	The Steamship Authority, Serving the Islands of Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Steamship Authority, Serving the Islands of Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket
		Since 1818, the vessels of the Steamship Authority and its predecessors have been traveling the waters of Woods Hole and Martha's Vineyard as well as Hyannis and Nantucket.
		Today, our goal is to provide safe, convenient and reliable transportation to island residents and visitors.
	web1.steamshipauthority.com /ssa (227 words)

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