CROSS-CHANNEL AND COASTAL PADDLE STEAMERS
Written by Frank Burtt
Published by Richard Tilling
in 1934
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- TRANSPORT
- MARITIME
- PADDLE STEAMERS
CROSS-CHANNEL AND COASTAL PADDLE STEAMERS
Written by Frank Burtt.
Stock no. 1707573
1934.
Hardback.
Almost very good condition.
To place on record a history of the many vessels of this type that maintained the main channels of communication between Great Britain and the neighbouring countries during the greater part of the nineteenth century. Red cloth, gilt titles. B/w photos. Folding b/w scale diagrams. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Spine faded. Spine and corners bumped. Small split to base of spine and tiny dent to top edge of front cover.
Front cover
Contents
- Introductory - The Past and the Future
- Early History
- General Steam Naviagation Co.
- Dundee, Perth & London Co.
- Netherlands S.S. Co.
- The Three Baron Osy's
- M.S. & L. Railway Steamers
- G.E. Railway Steamers
- Zeeland S.S. Co.
- Early Kentish Cross-Channel Services
- Ostend-Dover Route
- Folkestone-Boulonge Route
- Dover-Calais Route
- Newhaven-Dieppe Route
- L. & S.W. Railway Services
- G.W. Railway Services
- Irish Cross-Channel Companies
- City of Dublin S.P. Co.
- Isle of Man S.P. Co.
- Dublin & Glasgow S.P. Co.
- L.N. & W. Railway Services
- L. & Y. and L.N.W. Joint Steamers
- Liverpool & North Wales S.S. Co.
- The Burns & Laird Lines
- Clyde Shipping Company
- The MacBrayne Steamers
- The Larne-Stranraer Route
- Cosen's Steamers, Weymouth
- Southampton & Bournemouth Companies
- Campbell's Steamers
- The Belle Steamers
- Koh-i-noor, Royal Sovereign & La Marguerite
- New Medway S.P. Co.
- Barrow Steam Navigation Co.
- Paddle Mine Sweepers
- Addenda
- Index