screw-steamer

The crew were all civil and good-tempered, and with very little discipline everything went on smoothly, and the vessel was kept very clean and in pretty good order, so that on the whole I was much delighted with the trip, and was inclined to rate the luxuries of the semi-barbarous prau as surpassing those of the most magnificent screw-steamer, that highest result of our civilisation.

The Malay Archipelago 2004

Trieste — I did not hear that the surgeon of the screw-steamer

The Land of Midian 2003

He was explaining all this, when a large screw-steamer, high in the bows and low in the stern, crossed the _Bembridge Belle_ making for

Bob Strong's Holidays Adrift in the Channel John B. [Illustrator] Greene

In May, 1863, the screw-steamer Bahama made the trip from Foochow to London in eighty days with a cargo of tea, and obtained sixty dollars per ton, while freights by sailing vessels were but twenty dollars; the shippers being willing to pay forty dollars per ton for forty days 'quicker delivery.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866 Various

That she has taken her passage in the screw-steamer

Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands Mary Seacole

Therefore, while admitting the importance and necessity of providing for special service a small class of fast, full-power steamers, it is submitted that the auxiliary screw-steamer is the description of ship to which the largest and best consideration should be devoted; for to the nation possessing the most efficient fleet of such vessels must belong the dominion of the sea.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 29, March, 1860 Various

Oriental screw-steamer Himalaya -- the transport ship of two regiments of the heroes of Balaklava, and Alma, and Inkerman, and Sebastopol.

Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses Frederic S. Cozzens

Mail Company's new screw-steamer, bound for Havana, _viâ_ Nassau.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 19, May, 1859 Various

Finally, however, a distinguished admiral tied a screw-steamer and a paddle-steamer of equal horse-power stern to stern and set their engines running.

The Lion and the Unicorn 1941

I had as fine a crew of scoundrels in a month as ever cursed in a fo'castle; and I shipped them all on the screw-steamer, _Rossa_, which I bought for six thousand pounds from the Rossa Company.

The Iron Pirate A Plain Tale of Strange Happenings on the Sea Max Pemberton 1906