The Ocean Railway: Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Samuel Cunard and the Revolutionary World of the Great Atlantic Steamships

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Stephen Fox. The Ocean Railway: Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Samuel Cunard and the Revolutionary World of the Great Atlantic Steamships

The Ocean Railway. Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Samuel Cunard, and the revolutionary world of the great Atlantic steamships. Stephen Fox

Table of Contents

Prologue The North Atlantic Ocean and the Britannia

1. The Sailing Packets

2. Steam on Water

3. Ships as Enterprise: Samuel Cunard of Halifax

4. Ships as Engineering: Isambard Kingdom Brunel

5. The Cunard Line

6. The Collins Line

7. Distinguished Failures

8. Emigration and the Inman Line

9. Life on a Steamer

10. The White Star Line

11. Competition and Invention

12. Ships as Buildings: Two Cycles to Cunard

13. Ships as Towns: Officers, Crew, Steerage

14. Anglo-Americans

15. Germans

16. The Two Finest Cunarders

Notes. MANUSCRIPT MATERIALS

ABBREVIATIONS OF SOURCES

PROLOGUE: THE NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN. AND THE BRITANNIA

1: THE SAILING PACKETS

2: STEAM ON WATER

3: SHIPS AS ENTERPRISE: SAMUEL CUNARD OF HALIFAX

4: SHIPS AS ENGINEERING: ISAMBARD KINGDOM BRUNEL

5: THE CUNARD LINE

6: THE COLLINS LINE

7: DISTINGUISHED FAILURES

8: EMIGRATION AND THE INMAN LINE

9: LIFE ON A STEAMER

10: THE WHITE STAR LINE

11: COMPETITION AND INVENTION

12: SHIPS AS BUILDINGS: TWO CYCLES TO CUNARD

13: SHIPS AS TOWNS: OFFICERS, CREW, STEERAGE

14: ANGLO-AMERICANS

15: GERMANS

16: THE TWO FINEST CUNARDERS

Index

Acknowledgments

About the Author

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P.S

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To the memory of PHYLLIS RUTH BLAKELEY (1922-1986)

Provincial archivist for Nova Scotia

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