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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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has rendered good service on the West Indies and New York route, in which she made a record run from Jamaica to New York in 3 days 21 hours. The North Atlantic passage is too brief for the voyage to become unduly tedious, but upon some of the longer world-wide routes all sorts of diversions are indulged in to wile away the time. On Plate LVI is shown a variety of deck sports on board R.M.S.P. vessels, but on all ocean-going ships the passengers seek similar distractions. The Anchor Line with 20 steamers aggregating 114,000 tons, although it has a service to Bombay and Calcutta, is chiefly interested in services from Glasgow to New York via Moville, and to Portuguese and Spanish ports in South America. Its largest vessel is the Caledonia (9222 tons). The Pacific Steam Navigation Company has 44 steamships with a tonnage of 182,000. Their chief service is from Liverpool to Callao via France, Spain, Portugal, Brazil and River Plate. The largest steamers are the Orcoma (11,532 tons) and Oriana (8086 tons).
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Image identified on previous page. PLATE LVI. SPORTS ON DECK. ROUTES HERE AND THERE 321 The Booth Lino possesses about 40 steamships, with a total of nearly 140,000 registered tons, many of which sail from Liverpool, Havre, Vigo, Lisbon and New York, to South America, particularly the ports in the Amazon region. Their largest vessels are the Antony (6439 tons) and Lanfranc (6275 tons). This line is largely interested in the Iquitos Steamship Company, which owns half a dozen steamships that ascend the Amazon as far as Iquitos, 2000 miles from the coast. The largest of these river steamers is the Ucayali (3500 tons). To describe even briefly the shipping interests of Elder, Dempster and Company would require a chapter to itself, for this well-known Company really consists of half a dozen distinct lines. If we look in a shipping directory we discover that Messrs. Elder, Dempster and Co. own a dozen steamships, and the Elder, Dempster Shipping Co. twice as many; but the same firm own the African Steam Navigation Company with 22 vessels, the

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