steamship
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steamships
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Origin of steamship
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In 1878, he accepted a position as an engineer aboard the Ironsides, a British steamship.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 18, 2026
The growing effects of the Great Depression left many countries unable to afford the long, slow steamship trip to South America.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 23, 2025
A gold pocket watch presented to the captain of the Carpathia, the steamship which rescued more than 700 Titanic survivors, sold last year a record-breaking £1.56m.
From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2025
From 1815 to 1914, London presided over an expanding global system marked by industry, capital exports and colonial conquests, all spurred by the integration of the planet via railroad, steamship, telegraph and ultimately radio.
From Salon ● Sep. 20, 2024
There was a bridge now, not the steamship Rufus had used.
From "Kindred" by Octavia Butler
The resource powered steamships, heated homes, and supported metal production through coking processes.
From Science Daily ● May 6, 2026
Indeed, history is filled with examples of this, from the medieval Black Death hitchhiking along the Silk Road to the “Russian flu” pandemic of the late 19th century that was accelerated by trains and steamships.
From Salon ● Feb. 28, 2026
He celebrated the wave of innovations that had enriched human existence—railroads, steamships, telegraphs, telephones, electric lights, anesthetics, antiseptics.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2025
The Britannic was the third of the White Star Line company's Olympic class of steamships, along with the RMS Titanic and RMS Olympic.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2025
“My great-grandfather,” Volkheimer says all of a sudden, “was a sawyer in the years before steamships, when everything went by sail.”
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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