{"product_id":"2940012383044","title":"Official Guide And Album Of The Cunard Steamship Company (1877)","description":"Published in London in 1877 by the Cunard Steamship Company Ltd.. (200 pages).\u003cbr\u003eThis is the \"Official Guide And Album Of The Cunard Steamship Company. REVISED EDITION.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Publisher has copy-edited this book to improve the formatting, style and accuracy of the text to make it readable. This did not involve changing the substance of the text.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePREFACE\u003cbr\u003e1. THE CUNARD STEAMSHIP COMPANY\u003cbr\u003e2. THE MEDITERRANEAN\u003cbr\u003e3. ENGLAND TO AMERICA Hints for Travelers in the United States. By Meredith Edwards\u003cbr\u003e4. RIGHT ACROSS From San Francisco to New York. By W. Hepworth Dixon\u003cbr\u003e5. TRANSATLANTIC TRIPS By George Augustus Sala\u003cbr\u003e6. LIVERPOOL By Joseph Hatton\u003cbr\u003e7. LONDON By W. Blanchard Jerrold\u003cbr\u003e8. LONDON TO PARIS By Hinton Campbell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePREFACE:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e.....THE CUNARD COMPANY, in the preparation of the Second Edition of the Guide to the sailings of their fleets and lines of steamers, have added, in several important respects, to the information given in the former edition. The two articles entitled \"London to Paris\" and \" England to America\" will remove many of the small doubts and difficulties by which travelers are liable to be perplexed. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e.....As in the first edition, there will also be found several essays by known writers, intended to assist in lightening the inevitable tedium of a voyage. \u003cbr\u003eLiverpool, April, 1877. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExcerpts:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e.....THIRTY-SIX years ago, a time so short that a man scarcely past middle age can remember it as if it were yesterday, although so long if we measure it by the material progress which it has witnessed, the mails between England and Halifax (Nova Scotia) were conveyed in sailing vessels, Government ten-gun brigs, which, in the naval parlance of the day, were commonly known as \"coffins.\" The possibility of steam navigation had been demonstrated about twelve or fourteen years earlier, and coasting steamers were then actually engaged in trade. Between Glasgow and Liverpool there were two keenly competing lines of such steamers, one of them represented by the Messrs. Burns, of Glasgow, the other by the Messrs. MacIver, of Liverpool, Thoughtful men had already begun to foresee that this steam coasting trade would probably, in time, be extended to the ocean; and the British Government had pledged itself to use the first' opportunity of so extending it, by the substitution of steam mail boats for the vessels then in use. Mr. (afterwards Sir) Samuel Cunard entered heart and soul into the proposed enterprise, came to England for the purpose of promoting it, and accepted the Government tender for the carriage of mails across the Atlantic. He put himself into the hands of Mr. Robert Napier, of Glasgow, the eminent marine engineer; and to his skill and judgment in the early stages of the enterprise, especially with regard to the class of vessels to be employed, the owners attribute much of the success which has attended it. Mr. Napier introduced Mr. Cunard to the Messrs. Burns and the Messrs. MacIver, and the proposals which he made to these gentlemen were so acceptable to them that he was able to induce the former rivals to unite with him, and thus to constitute the co-partnership which has since been familiarly known as the Cunard Company, and which undertook to carry the wishes of the Government into effect.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e.....In pursuance of this undertaking, the new Company entered into a contract for the fortnightly conveyance of mails between Liverpool and Halifax, Boston, and Quebec. The contract was for a term of seven years, and the ships employed under it were to be of such a build that they might be available as troop ships, or for transporting stores in time of war. Four steamers were at once commenced, the Britannia, the Acadia, the Caledonia, and the Columbia, each of one thousand two hundred tons gross register, and of four hundred and forty horse power. The first of these, the Britannia, left Liverpool on her first voyage on the 4th of July, 1840, the day known to Americans as \"Celebration Day,\" thus inaugurating the \"service\" by a happy coincidence which, although unpremeditated, was none the less significant of future success.","brand":"Digital Text Publishing Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47162776879344,"sku":"2940012383044","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940012383044_p0.jpg?v=1763567976","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940012383044","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}