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Introduction: Coal, Steam and Ships; Part I. North Atlantic Steam: 1. 'Trust in the promises of God': The Moral and Spiritual Credibility of Steam Navigation; 2. 'The character of fine workmanship': Making Clydeside's Marine Engineering Reputation; 3. 'A swarm of projectors': Promises of North Atlantic Steam Navigation; 4. 'This noble vessel': Realizing the Promises of Transatlantic Steam; 5. 'Giving rich promise of serious intentions': Mr Cunard's Line of Steamers; 6. 'Proprietor of the Atlantic Ocean': Politics and Patronage on the Seas; Part II. Westward for Panama: 7. 'Mail-coaches of the ocean': The West India Company Project; 8. 'A most perilous enterprise': Royal Mail Steam Packet's Vulnerabilities; 9. 'In highly creditable order': RMSP's New Board of Management in Action; 10. 'She was one mass of fire': Reading the Maiden Voyage of the Royal Mail Steamer Amazon; 11. 'An uncompromising adherence to punctuality': Pacific Steam from Valparaiso to Panama; Part III. Eastward for India and China: 12. 'Built on a large, commodious and powerful scale': Forging P&O's Eastern Mail Steamship System; 13. 'So great a cloud of obloquy and mistrust': Locking and Unlocking the Secrets of a Maritime Empire; 14. 'A more desirable result in the performance of the vessel': P&O's Mail Steamers in Action; Part IV. Engineering an Oceanic Economy: 15. 'She would be perfectly stable and strong': Rival Systems of Engineering Economy; 16. 'The engines were imperfect': Pacific Steam's Coal Economy; 17. 'A constant succession of unfathomable and costly experiments': Making Credible the Marine Compound Engine; 18. 'The modern Clyde ships': Economy and Power for Ocean Steam Navigation; Epilogue: 'The sovereignty of the seas' - The Maritime System Builders