Steam and the North Atlantic Mails. The impact of the Cunard Line and subsequent steamship companies on the carriage of transatlantic mails

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Deals with the development, including speed, of transatlantic mail services from the 1830s to the 1860s and the impact on this of steam shipping, shipping lines - most notably Cunard - and mail contracts. Chapters include: 'Early history of ocean mails'; 'Cunard auxiliary mailboats'; 'The pioneer steamers'; 'Beginnings of Cunard Line'; 'Internal communication with Halifax in support of steam'; 'The first years of the Cunard Line'; 'Life on a Cunard steamer'; 'The Admiralty agents on the Cunard steamers'; 'Delays, near disaster and loss'; 'Preparation and accounting of the mails'; 'Closed mails through the United States'; 'Forwarding agents and expresses'; 'The contemporary American situation'; 'Extension of the Cunard Line to New York'; 'The first real competition - the Collins Line'; 'The first Canadian mail steamers'; 'The Allan Line'; 'Route changes and more competition'; 'Steam comes of age'