[Rarebooks] fs: The Doomed Steamship Line- 1852 Speech

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SPEECH OF HON. C.T. JAMES, OF RHODE ISLAND, ON THE COLLINS LINE OF 
STEAMERS. Delivered in the Senate of the United States, May 6, 1852.

Washington; printed by Jno. T. Towers: 1852.

An interesting memento of the famous and tragic Collins Line of steamers. 
The Collins Line ran five steamers between New York and Liverpool between 
1849 and 1856, carrying mail and passengers and competing with the 
better-financed and more technologically advanced Cunard Line of Great 
Britain. The Collins ships were all side-wheelers and never turned a 
profit, instead being heavily subsidized by the United States government in 
an attempt to institute an American-run mail service across the Atlantic.

The subsidy was always controversial, as this speech (in favor of it) 
shows. The most famous Collins steamer was the "Arctic", which collided 
with a French ship and sank off Newfoundland in 1854 with heavy loss of 
life. After a second ship, the "Pacific", disappeared without a trace while 
bound from Liverpool to New York in 1856, Congress ended the subsidy and 
the line ceased operations.

Softcover. 5.5"x9", 24 pages; original light-blue covers; top outer corner 
of the front cover is chipped and torn; else, light soil, a few spots; old 
crease down the middle; page tips creased. [06449] $85.00

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