Early Solent Steamers..
Original cloth in unclipped dust wrapper spine slightly sunned, but a very good example.
£15.00
Publisher
Brown, Son and Ferguson Glasgow,
Date
1981
Synopsis
A history of local steam navigation.
Item Description
Second edition, 8vo. 254pp. 33 plates, 10 line drawings, 2 maps.
Notes
Starts from the period from 1817 when the first local steamboat set out to supplant the sailing passage vessel, draws on contemporary newspaper reports to tell the story of the development of steamer services from Bournemouth to Portsmouth and around the Isle of Wight.
[Stock No. 13712]
Subjects
19th Century • Commerce • English • History • Naval/Military • Ships • Steamers