"iron" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Laird Shipyard of Liverpool sent an iron steamer to the Nile in the 1830s.
- Three similar iron steamers followed within a few years.
- Eventually they built and operated the largest fleet of iron steamers in the world between the mid-1850s and the late-1860s, including five trans-Atlantic passenger liners.
- She was an early iron steamer with a tonnage of 2,200.
- The line named the iron steamer General Whitney in his honor in 1873.
- All of the company's iron steamers were designed by Herman Winter, the line's chief engineer from 1872 to 1891.
- The world's first iron steamer was the paddle steamer Aaron Manby of 1821.
- She was the first iron steamer to cross the Atlantic, which she did in 1845, in the time of 14 days.
- In 1839 and 1840 Peacock superintended the construction of iron steamers which rounded the Cape, and took part in the Chinese war.
- She was not equipped with a double bottom and, like other early iron steamers, her hull compartmentalization was primitive.
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