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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Steam navigation. (search)
nicorn, first steam-vessel from Europe to enter Boston Harbor, arrivesJune 2, 1840 First of the Cunard line, the Britannia, side-wheeler, crosses to Boston in 14 days 8 hours, leaving LiverpoolJuly 4 crosses the Atlantic, 3,316 miles, in 22 1/2 days, consuming only twenty-five tons of coal1880 Cunard steamer Etruria arrives at Quarantine, port of New York, one hour before the McKinley bill goes Charles W. Wetmore steams from the head of Lake Superior to Liverpool1891 Campania, twin-screw Cunard liner, with a gross tonnage of 12,500 tons, 620 feet long, 65 feet 3 inches broad, and 43 feet d Fastest Atlantic Ocean passages. Route.Steamer.Line.DateD.H.M. Queenstown to New YorkLucaniaCunardOct. 21-26, 18945723 New York to QueenstownLucaniaCunardSept. 8-14, 18945838 Cherbourg to New YCunardSept. 8-14, 18945838 Cherbourg to New YorkDeutschlandHamburg-AmericanAug. 26–Sept. 1, 190051229 Southampton to New YorkKaiser Wilhelm der GrosseNorth German LloydMarch 30–April 5, 1898520 New York to SouthamptonKaiser Wilhelm der GrosseN
Edward H. Savage, author of Police Recollections; Or Boston by Daylight and Gas-Light ., Boston events: a brief mention and the date of more than 5,000 events that transpired in Boston from 1630 to 1880, covering a period of 250 years, together with other occurrences of interest, arranged in alphabetical order, Boston events. (search)
els arrive in the harbor, June 8, 1711 Fifty building at the wharves, July, 1741 All the British driven from the harbor, June 14, 1776 Fifty-two clear from the Custom-House, July 13, 1844 One hundred and twenty-nine arrived to-day, May 14, 1846 The Franklin wrecked at Wellfleet, Mar. 1, 1849 Steam. The North America arrived from St. Johns, Nov. 21, 1839 Ships Steam. The Lexington burned on Long Island Sound; 150 lives lost, Jan. 13, 1840 The Unicorn, first of the Cunard line, arrived in Boston, June 4, 1840 Fever, raging with emigrants at Deer Island, June, 1847 Shot Richard Ames, on the Common, for desertion, Nov. 3, 1768 A boy in Dock square, by a revenue informer, Feb. 11, 1770 Valentine Ducat, on the Common, for desertion, Sep. 1, 1774 William Ferguson, on the Common, for desertion, Dec. 24, 1774 Elijah Woodard, on the Common, for desertion, Oct. 5, 1777 Soldier Pendergrast, at Niles' Block, for insubordination, Apr. 9, 1863 S
Jula Ward Howe, Reminiscences: 1819-1899, Chapter 7: marriage: tour in Europe (search)
, although employing his power in so many directions, his use of it was wonderfully free from waste. He indulged in no vaporous visions, in no redundancy of phrases. The documents in which he gave to the public the results of his experience are models of statement, terse, simple, and direct. I became engaged to Dr. Howe during a visit to Boston in the winter of 1842-43, and was married to him on the 23rd of April of the latter year. A week later we sailed for Europe in one of the small Cunard steamers of that time, taking with us my youngest sister, Annie Ward, whose state of health gave us some uneasiness. My husband's great friend, Horace Mann, and his bride, Mary Peabody, sailed with us. During the first two days of the voyage I was stupefied by sea-sickness, and even forgot that my sister was on board the steamer. On the evening of the second day I remembered her, and managed with the help of a very stout stewardess to visit her in her stateroom, where she had for her room
The Daily Dispatch: January 27, 1864., [Electronic resource], A sad coincidence. (search)
A sad coincidence. --The Halifax Citizen of the 14th November, relates the following singular and mournful coincidence: It is not often that the two mail steamers from Liverpool and Boston arrive in this port together. But this happened on Friday morning; for as the Asia from Europe reached Cunard's wharf an hour or so after midnight, she was followed in a few minutes by the Canada, bound for Europe. In a few moments it was circulated through the crowd of spectators that a death had just occurred on board the Asia, and hardly had the strange thrill of feeling produced by this intelligence been felt, before it was yet more startlingly excited by a second announcement from the officers of the Canada that a dead man lay on board of her too.--The first death alluded to was that of a wealthy English merchant, Joseph Battersby, Esq., of Manchester, who was one of the owners of the ship Consul, now for two years laid up in our harbor with an assorted cargo intended for the South