'Porto Grande of S Vicente. The coal business on an Atlantic island' in M S Bosa (ed), Atlantic Ports and the First Globalisation, c1850-1930
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- Author(s) Prata, Ana
- Publication type Chapter
- Year published 2014
- Pages pp49-69
- Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
- Place Published Basingstoke
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- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Deals with the development, 1850-1914, of Porto Grande as a coaling station dominated by British businesses and serving British shipping lines. Businesses included Royal Mail Steam Packet Co; Thomas & Miller; Patent Fuel; Visger & Miller; MacLeod & Martin; Miller & Nephew