Description

This is an important account of the development of steam-powered ships, from the time of the little river steamers, Fulton's "Claremont" and Henry Bell's 1812 "Comet", through to the first true sea-going steamers - Here one will find just as much about the first Clyde Steamers as about those which were the first to regularly and reliably cross The Irish Sea and The English Channel, nearly all, in one way or another, thanks to the work of David Napier and his family.