Maximisation: Screw collier into ocean-going tramp
Journal: Liverpool University Press eBooks
Year: 2023

This chapter proposes that the design of the screw collier developed for the English east coast coal trade was progressed and enlarged to give ships suitable for trading on longer routes, giving rise to the ubiquitous steam tramp. Several strands of evidence are presented to support this case. To support the fighting in the Crimea between 1853 and 1856 the British government chartered a number of screw colliers which made voyages to the Black Sea. This demonstrated to owners that such voyages we