History of Merchant Shipping and Ancient Commerce, Vol. 4 of 4 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from History of Merchant Shipping and Ancient Commerce, Vol. 4 of 4Steam Navigation Company and Peninsular and Oriental Company tender for it, but the Peninsular and Oriental succeed - The Hima laya built - New contract with Peninsular and Oriental Company, January 1853 - Failure of Service during the Crimean War - Pro posals for an independent Australian mail service - Tender of Euro pean and Australian Company accepted - Their entire failure Speech of Lord Overstone, March 24th, 1859 - Royal Mail Company undertakes the Australian service and fails - New tenders invited That of Peninsular and Oriental Company accepted, 1859 - Con solidation of services in the Peninsular and Oriental Company - Its present condition and ¿eet of ships - Terms of the contract now in force - Revenue and expenditure - Goals required - Descriptions of vessels - Screw steamer Khedit-e - Particulars of this ship - Uniform and regulations of the Company Pages 376 - 415.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.