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  2. SS Archimedes - Wikipedia

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    By these arguments, Brunel in December 1840 was able to persuade the Great Western Steamship Company to adopt screw propulsion for Great Britain, thus making her the world's first screw-propelled transatlantic steamer. Instead of using Smith's proven design, however, Brunel later decided to install a six-bladed "windmill" propeller designed by ...

  3. Steamship - Wikipedia

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    The British side-wheel paddle steamer SS Great Western was the first steamship purpose-built for regularly scheduled trans-Atlantic crossings, starting in 1838. In 1836 Isambard Kingdom Brunel and a group of Bristol investors formed the Great Western Steamship Company to build a line of steamships for the Bristol-New York route. [14]

  4. Screw steamer - Wikipedia

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    Such a ship was also known as an "iron screw steam ship". In the 19th century, this designation was normally used in contradistinction to the paddle steamer, a still earlier form of steamship that was largely, but not entirely, superseded by the screw steamer. [1] Many famous ships were screw steamers, including the RMS Titanic and RMS ...

  5. Star of the South (1853 ship) - Wikipedia

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    Star of the South was a wooden-hulled, propeller-driven steamship launched in 1853. She was one of the first mechanically reliable and economically profitable propeller-driven steamships. Her success foretold the end of paddlewheel propulsion on ocean-going steamships.

  6. Ajax (1864 ship) - Wikipedia

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    Ajax was a wooden, propeller-driven steamship built in 1864.She provided logistical support to the Union Army on the Atlantic coast during the American Civil War.After the war she was sent to San Francisco where she provided freight and passenger services between that city and other ports on the Pacific coast.

  7. Harlan and Hollingsworth - Wikipedia

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    That same year the company built the Bangor, which is credited with being the first seagoing iron propeller steamship built in the United States. In 1897, the company designed the first steam pilot boat in the New York harbor, the New York. By the early 1850s the company began to rely less on wood ship or railcar building for its income.

  8. Steam frigate - Wikipedia

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    The first small vessel that can be considered a steam warship was the Demologos, which was launched in 1815 for the United States Navy. [1] From the early 1820s, the British Navy began building a number of small steam warships including the armed tugs HMS Comet and HMS Monkey, and by the 1830s the navies of America, Russia and France were experimenting with steam-powered warships. [2]

  9. Francis Pettit Smith - Wikipedia

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    After securing the financial backing of several parties, he helped organise the Propeller Steamship Company which in 1839 built the world's first successful screw-propelled steamship, SS Archimedes. A short time later, he was instrumental in persuading Isambard Kingdom Brunel to change the design of the SS Great Britain from paddle to screw ...