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...created "a new type of submersible vessel designed to navigate under ice. This invention consists of a superstructure for a cargo-carrying vessel by which its navigator, upon encountering ice-covered or ice-filled waters, may submerge and run beneath the ice, then rise to the surface, breaking up the ice, and thus open a path for continued surface navigation...
...exactly a pirate brig, despite its swashbuckling title. But a chipper little schooner with plenty of saltwater stories aboard, a ballast of saline humor and a cargo of vocabularies like smelted slag...
...nearness of timber to the New England harbors helped to make the old square-rigger a cheap instrument of conveyance. But the dominant factor is the place of the English export coal trade. A "tramp" carrying bulky raw goods to England for manufacture can always count upon a return cargo of coal; and to be profitable a "tramp" must never sail empty...
...American cargo steamers operating from New York or Boston are obviously handicapped by this advantage of the British shippers, as they are by the undiversified character of American export trade. And against economic disadvantages governmental policies are of singularly little avail. But while the prosperity and dominance of an earlier era may never return to the American merchant fleet, the record of the Leviathan seems to point out one possible field for exploitation: the development of a swift "liner" service across the Atlantic...
Whoever originated this scheme must have been studying American advertising methods. On the ship are delegates who will deliver lectures at every stop. There is, of course, a cargo of the usual "literature" on board. And there are sample automobiles, aircraft, electrical appliances, ripe olives, and--one guesses chianti...