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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l steamships of this line are the Walmer Castle (12,546 tons), Saxon (12,385 tons), Briton (10,248 tons), Kildonan Castle (9692 tons) and Kinfauns Castle (9664 tons). Until quite recently it was a matter of reproach to us, that there was no direct British steamship service between the United Kingdom and the East Coast of Africa ; and that the only unbroken means of communication was by the vessels of a Germanline. Passengers for East Africa by British vessels sailed via Capetown, and transhipped at Durban for Delagoa Bay, Beira, Chinde, Mozambique, Zanzibar, and Mombasa. This stigma—for it was no less from both a maritime and an Imperial stand-point—was removed in September, 1910, when the Union-Castle Mail s.s. Guelph left Southampton for the principal East African ports via the Suez Canal. The new link thus forged will be maintained by a service of intermediate steamers calling at Marseilles and Naples. Having arrived at that stage when there re-main only a few pages of our allotted space, one
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PLATE LVIII. • PELUSE. LARGEST BUCKET-DREDGER AFLOAT (employed in dredging the Suez Canal) . TELEGRAPH CABLE STEAMSHIP -AMBER.- ROUTES HERE AND THERE 327 is at a loss to know with what to conclude out of the vast amount of information still remaining at our disposal. There are quite six score important British Shipping Companies, many of which have not been mentioned even indirectly. Many of their vessels are engaged only in the cargo trade,but they visit every port in the world where there is a market for our multitudinous manufactures,or where there is a product to be picked up to convey to our shores either for food, or as material to employ our manufacturing energies. We might describe the pleasure steamers that ply down the Thames to various popular watering places, or similar vessels that cater for the enjoyment of excursionists at numerous seaside resorts, or the great ferry boats which, at intervals of every few minutes, cross the Mersey to and from Liverpool and Birkenhead. There are steam trawlers round our coasts, especiall

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