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An Engine of Commerce?

Discover the impact of steam technology on global maritime trade between 1860 and 1910, featuring the RMS Mauretania, British shipping, trade successes, and failures. Explore key data and insights from this transformative period in maritime history.

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An Engine of Commerce?

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  1. An Engine of Commerce? Play with your fancies, and in them behold Upon the hempen tackle ship-boys climbing; Hear the shrill whistle which doth order give To sounds confused; behold the threaden sails, Borne with th’invisible and creeping wind, Draw the huge bottoms through the furrowed sea, Breasting the lofty surge.

  2. Steam Technology and Global Maritime Trade, 1860-1910: Studies in Success and Failure

  3. British Shipping – Total Net Tonnage

  4. Steam Tonnage Entering/Clearing UK Ports

  5. Increases in Steam Pressure (lbs/sq inch)

  6. The North Atlantic Passenger Trade

  7. Blue Riband of the Atlantic Holders

  8. RMS Mauretania, 1907-1935 Built – 1907 On launch – largest moving man-made object (16,000 tons) yet built Service tonnage – 31,500 gross tons Dimensions – 790 ft long x 88 ft wide Engines – 4 x direct drive steam turbines Daily coal consumption – 1,320 tons Passengers – 563 1st, 464 2nd, 1,138 3rd Crew – 816 Fastest crossing – 4 days, 17 ½ hours (27.2 knots) Total career – 318 Atlantic voyages, 1.5 m nautical miles

  9. Mauretania & Lusitania 1st liners to exceed 700 ft in length 1st liners to exceed 30,000 gross tons 1st liners to cross Atlantic in less than 5 days 1st liners to cross Atlantic at more than 25 & 26 knots Mauretania – the last steam-driven liner to hold the Blue Riband 1907-1929

  10. Allan Line Losses, 1957-1864

  11. Staggering Along with the State Line

  12. The Antipodes – A Tale of Gold & Sheep

  13. Failure & Success in the Antipodes-UK Trade

  14. Cutty Sark – Freight Loaded, Sydney NSW for UK, 1885

  15. Romance & Ruin in the China Tea Trade

  16. Glen Line, Ship Investment & Return, 1873-1881

  17. Freight Rates, Far East-UK (shillings/ton)

  18. Tonight’s Quiz A 2,800 ton/compound-engined steamer arrives at the entrance to a British port with a cargo of cotton from Galveston some time between 1897 and 1910 …

  19. 1. When she was built: 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s 2. Where she was owned/managed Bilbao/Liverpool Brisbane/London Boston/Leeds Buenos Aires/Llanelli 3. What she was called: Nile Nagoya Nanking Niceto 4. Where she was arriving: London Liverpool Manchester Glasgow Can You Guess….

  20. Coal Out – Grain Home

  21. T Dunlop & Sons – Ship Acquisition Costs

  22. T Dunlop & Sons – Profitability, Sail vs Steam

  23. Cardiff – Fixture List, 15 June 1904

  24. SS Iona – Chief Engineer’s Log, 1889-90 (1)

  25. SS Iona – Chief Engineer’s Log, 1889-90 (2)

  26. UK Grain Imports (million tons)

  27. Tramp Steamers – Size & Carrying Capacity

  28. Bulk Freight Rates (shillings/ton)

  29. Freight Rates & Building Costs

  30. Tonight’s Quiz Answers 1. (C) Built 1884 2. (A) Owned in Bilbao/Managed in Liverpool 3. (D) Named Niceto 4. (C) Entering the Manchester Ship Canal

  31. Closing Thoughts

  32. Romantic but Wrong; Repulsive but Right As o’er the moon, fast fly the amber veils, For one dear hour let’s fling the knots behind, And hear again, thro’ cordage and thro’ sails, The vigour of the voices of the wind. They’re gone, the Clyde-built darlings, like a dream, Regrets are vain, and sighs shall not avail, Yet, mid the clatter and the rush of steam, How strangely memory veers again to sail!

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