. Every boy's book of railways and steamships . l steamships of this line arethe Walmer Castle (12,546 tons), Saxon(12,385 tons), Briton (10,248 tons), KildonanCastle (9692 tons) and Kinfauns Castle (9664tons). Until quite recently it was a matter of reproachto us, that there was no direct British steamshipservice between the United Kingdom and the EastCoast of Africa ; and that the only unbroken meaDSof communication was by the vessels of a Germanline. Passengers for East Africa by British vesselssailed via Capetown, and transhipped at Durbanfor Delagoa Bay, Beira, Chinde, Mozambique,Zanzibar
. Every boy's book of railways and steamships . l steamships of this line arethe Walmer Castle (12,546 tons), Saxon(12,385 tons), Briton (10,248 tons), KildonanCastle (9692 tons) and Kinfauns Castle (9664tons). Until quite recently it was a matter of reproachto us, that there was no direct British steamshipservice between the United Kingdom and the EastCoast of Africa ; and that the only unbroken meaDSof communication was by the vessels of a Germanline. Passengers for East Africa by British vesselssailed via Capetown, and transhipped at Durbanfor Delagoa Bay, Beira, Chinde, Mozambique,Zanzibar, and Mombasa. This stigma—for it wasno less from both a maritime and an Imperial stand-point—was removed in September, 1910, when theUnion-Castle Mail Guelph left Southamptonfor the principal East African ports via the SuezCanal. The new link thus forged will be main-tained by a service of intermediate steamers callingat Marseilles and Naples. Having arrived at that stage when there re-main only a few pages of our allotted space, one. PLATE LVIII. • PELUSE. LARGEST BUCKET-DREDGER CABLE STEAMSHIP ROUTES HERE AND THERE 327 is at a loss to know with what to conclude out ofthe vast amount of information still remaining atour disposal. There are quite six score importantBritish Shipping Companies, many of which havenot been mentioned even indirectly. Many oftheir vessels are engaged only in the cargo trade,but they visit every port in the world where thereis a market for our multitudinous manufactures,or where there is a product to be picked up toconvey to our shores either for food, or as materialto employ our manufacturing energies. We might describe the pleasure steamers thatply down the Thames to various popular wateringplaces, or similar vessels that cater for the enjoy-ment of excursionists at numerous seaside resorts,or the great ferry boats which, at intervals ofevery few minutes, cross the Mersey to and fromLiverpool and Birkenhead. The
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