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Steamship line   /stˈimʃˌɪp laɪn/   Listen
Steamship line

noun
1.
A line responsible for the operation of a fleet of steamships.  Synonym: steamship company.






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"Steamship line" Quotes from Famous Books



... found St. Helens to be the place. Here was to be the terminus of the steamship line from San Francisco. "Wasn't the company building this wharf?" "They wouldn't set sixty men to work on the dock unless they meant business." "Ships can't get up the Willamette—that's nothing but a creek. The big city is going to ...
— Ox-Team Days on the Oregon Trail • Ezra Meeker

... a single ship, there was turned over to him a sum so large every year that many of the most opulent merchants could not claim the equal of it after a lifetime of feverish trade. It was purely as a means of blackmailing coercion that he started a steamship line to California to compete with the Harris and the Sloo interests. For his consent to quit running his ships and to give them a complete and unassailed monopoly he first extorted $480,000 a year of the postal subsidy, and then ...
— Great Fortunes from Railroads • Gustavus Myers

... he began quietly. "The President desires my presence in Washington, thinks I can be of some use to him there in helping carry out certain party measures—measures to which he pledged himself before his election. Down here, a British steamship line has laid down local rules which, in my case anyway, are ridiculous. The question is, are you going to be bound by the red tape of a ha'penny British colony, or by your oath to the President ...
— My Buried Treasure • Richard Harding Davis



Words linked to "Steamship line" :   line, fleet



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