Book contents
- Coal, Steam and Ships
- Science in History
- Coal, Steam and Ships
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: Coal, Steam and Ships
- Part I North Atlantic Steam
- Part II Westward for Panama
- 7 ‘Mail-Coaches of the Ocean’
- 8 ‘A Most Perilous Enterprise’
- 9 ‘In Highly Creditable Order’
- 10 ‘She Was One Mass of Fire’
- 11 ‘An Uncompromising Adherence to Punctuality’
- Part III Eastward for India and China
- Part IV Engineering an Oceanic Economy
- Epilogue: ‘The Sovereignty of the Seas’
- Bibliography
- Index
9 - ‘In Highly Creditable Order’
RMSP's New Board of Management in Action
from Part II - Westward for Panama
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 June 2018
- Coal, Steam and Ships
- Science in History
- Coal, Steam and Ships
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: Coal, Steam and Ships
- Part I North Atlantic Steam
- Part II Westward for Panama
- 7 ‘Mail-Coaches of the Ocean’
- 8 ‘A Most Perilous Enterprise’
- 9 ‘In Highly Creditable Order’
- 10 ‘She Was One Mass of Fire’
- 11 ‘An Uncompromising Adherence to Punctuality’
- Part III Eastward for India and China
- Part IV Engineering an Oceanic Economy
- Epilogue: ‘The Sovereignty of the Seas’
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Coal, Steam and ShipsEngineering, Enterprise and Empire on the Nineteenth-Century Seas, pp. 166 - 184Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2018