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The Beginning of the Steam Mails. Model of "The Britannia" 1840, "Sirius" and "The Great Western", chart indicating growth of steamship from 1840 to 1914, the first to reach America under steam, the wreck of "Sirius", after "Sirius", "Britannia" the first steam Cunarder, the beginning of the Cunard Line, engines for screw steamer "Great Britain", the first steam mail carriers, twin-screw railway steamship "Drottning Victoria", "Britannia" reaches Boston in a fortnight, weekly mails to America, the first big screw-driven steamer, coal hulks with a past, turbine yacht "Albion", coal hulks with a past |