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The Isthmian Steamship Company was a shipping company founded by US Steel in 1910. The company was named after the newly completed Panama Canal at the Isthmus of Panama.  In the 1930s the company was split off from US Steel.   In...

Select passages from The Citizen guide to Brooklyn and Long Island , 1893 [Page 103] A comparison between the commerce of New York and Brooklyn will serve to show the relative importance of the two cities as regards shipping and allied industries....

Huge waves crashing down on the deck as hail, steamers burning through their coal just to stay in place against the wind, ships being thrashed by the storm and everything, and everyone, frozen and encrusted in ice. These are the stories that the...

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