The company bought into coal mining in 1881 by acquiring the Takashima mine and Hashima Island in 1890, using the production to fuel their extensive steamship fleet.

On 4 May 1903, a group of over 200 Dutch emigrants sailed on the steamship " Oropesa " shipping company " Pacific Steam Navigation Company, from La Rochelle ( La Pallice ) in France.

While British American, the other pioneer transatlantic steamship company did not submit a tender, the St. George Steam Packet Company, owner of the Sirius, bid £ 45, 000 for a monthly Cork-Halifax service and £ 65, 000 for a monthly Cork – Halifax – New York service.

Early investments in steam included co-founding the steam ferry company in Halifax harbour and an investment in the pioneering steamship Royal William.

In 1846, Foster moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, and became a bookkeeper with his brother's steamship company.

In 1886 the steamship company Fæmund was established and they invested in a wooden steamship, which today holds the same name: M / S Femund II.

After the Savannah, there was no steamship owned or run by an American company that navigated the Atlantic Ocean to a port in Europe until 1847.

The Khaw family founded a steamship company known as the Eastern Shipping Company.

His clients, who were also large creditors also of the Oregon Steamship Company, approved his scheme, and in 1875 Villard became president of both the steamship company and the Oregon and California Railroad.

His father, William Lawrence Ryan, was a steamship company executive.

Later even though they did not have the ridership to support one, the company purchased the steamship Tom Thumb.

In 1844 the Austrian Lloyd steamship company opened a tourist line which called at Parenzo.

The company acquired its first steamship in 1863, the Royal Standard.

Cara began as a steamship company on the Niagara River in Ontario.

When Brenan and Company, the largest horse and wagon operator, moved to trucking, they bought out the steamship company and named their trucks after the ships that plied the Puke River.

Since New Orleans was a major port for Morgan's steamship company, he saw this new railroad as an opportunity to move his goods to Texas.

Merchant marine officers at that time wore their steamship line or company uniform with the Naval Auxiliary Reserve device on the collar of the military coat, or on the lapels of the box coat.

In 1934, the Cunard Steamship Company merged with the White Star Line to form Cunard White Star Line, which became the largest passenger steamship company in the world, helping to make Liverpool one of the most important centres of the British trans-Atlantic ocean liner industry.

In 1885, the London & North Western, Midland, Caledonian and Glasgow & South Western railways had formed the Portpatrick and Wigtownshire Joint Railway to operate the Portpatrick Railway and to, improve the profitability of the route, bought out the steamship company.

The food, which is miserable, is dealt out of huge kettles into the dinner pails provided by the steamship company.

Shipping companies owned include: Conwick Investment Ltd ; Far East Hydrofoil Company Ltd ; Hongkong Macao Hydrofoil Company Ltd ; Sunrise Field Ltd ; Tai Tak Hing Shipping Company Ltd ( this was the company, then independent, that owned the steamship ferry Fat Shan, which sank off Lantau in Typhoon Rose in 1971 with the loss of 88 lives, en route from Macau ); Wealth Trump Ltd ; Shun Tak-China Travel Macau Ferries Ltd ( formerly known as Hong Kong-Macau New World First Ferry Services ( Macau ) Ltd ); Companhia de Serviços de Ferry STCT ( Macau ) ( formerly known as New Ferry-Transporte Maritimo de Passageiros ( Macau ))

The company ordered a 110-ton general purpose steamship, the, to operate on Lake Victoria.

Upon the receipt of this order, which is forwarded by the steamship City of Pekin to you at Honolulu, you will proceed, with the Charleston and the City of Pekin in company, to Manila, Philippine Islands.

For a time, a narrow-gauge railway carried curious travelers from the steamship wharf in Oak Bluffs to Edgartown, running along tracks laid on what is now Joseph Sylvia State Beach.

* Fireman ( steam engine ), an individual employed to tend the fire for running a steam engine, either on a stationary engine, a railway locomotive or a steamship

In 1834, he entered the steamship business, competing unsuccessfully with Cornelius Vanderbilt but running numerous profitable lines outside of New York.

In 1836, US statesman Charles Biddle reached an agreement with the New Granadan government to replace the old road with an improved one or a railroad, running from Panama City on the Pacific coast to the Chagres River, where a steamship service would allow passengers and freight to continue to Colón.

* 1838: the first steamship purpose-built for regularly scheduled trans-Atlantic crossings enters service.

From 1870-1883, there were a large number of improvements ; the building of Trumland pier, island schools, a public market, the first steamship service, a post office, and the first resident doctor.

* 1838 – Isambard Kingdom Brunel's, the first purpose-built transatlantic steamship, inaugurates the first regular transatlantic steamship service.

*, a Brocklebank Line steamship in service 1924-24

The Morgan steamship lines runs regular service from Indianola to New York.

In 1840 the company's first steamship, the Britannia, sailed from Liverpool to Halifax, Nova Scotia and on to Boston, Massachusetts, with Cunard and 63 other passengers on board, marking the beginning of regular passenger and cargo service.

In 1827, Col. Borden began regular steamship service to Providence, Rhode Island.

The town functioned as an important port, with steamship transportation of passengers, trade, and mail to and from Galveston and with access to stage routes and ferry service across the Trinity.

Also in the 1850s, a regular steamship service route for cargo and passengers was established between New Orleans and Mustang Island.

After the announcement of a regular steamship service route between New Orleans and Port Aransas, the United States Congress commissioned $ 12, 500 for the construction of the Aransas Pass Lighthouse.

* SS Athabasca, a steamship launched in Scotland in 1883 and put into service on the Great Lakes, along with SS Alberta and SS Algoma

The town was also renowned for its access to Mississippi Lake, and had steamship service to Innisville between the 1860s and 1920s.

With the advent of steamship service on Lake Muskoka a few years later, Bracebridge prospered as the main distribution centre for the region.

Regular steamship service between New York and Boston helped Norwich to prosper as a shipping center through the early part of the 20th century.

The Patuxent was plied by regular steamship service, mostly from the Weems Line, from the 1820s to the 1920s, replacing the schooners and sailing packets that had for the previous centuries served the river's many landings and docks along the navigable reach.

The treaty led the US government to contract for steamship service to Panama from ports on both coasts.

In 1840 Cunard Line ’ s Britannia began its first regular passenger and cargo service by a steamship, sailing from Liverpool to Boston.

It offers a steamship service to ports of northern Shikoku and islands in the Inland Sea.

Before the war there was a Summer steamship service from Rye to Boulogne.

* 1867 – First regular Trans-Pacific steamship service between the U. S., Yokohama and Hong Kong