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CompTIA®
Network+®
Study Guide
Fifth Edition
CompTIA®
Network+®
Study Guide
Exam N10-­0 08
Fifth Edition

Todd Lammle
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Acknowledgments
Kim Wimpsett was the development editor of this Sybex CompTIA series as with the
previous three. Thank you, Kim, for your patience and kindness and for working so hard on
this book with me once again, and I look forward to any book that has Kim on the editorial
board.
Kenyon Brown was the acquisitions editor for this book. Thank you, Kenyon, for making
this fourth book in the series a reality.
In addition, Christine O’Connor was an excellent managing editor, and she worked hard
to get the book done as quickly as possible. I have worked with Christine for well over a
decade and I am always very pleased when I hear that she will be working with me on yet a
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As with Kim and Christine, I have also worked with Judy Flynn for more than a decade.
She knows my work so well she can provide some technical advice and also understands
how I write and can wordsmith right along with my tone and voice. Thank you, Judy!
Troy McMillan literally hashed and rehashed each topic in this guide with me at all hours
of the day and night. Thank you, Troy, yet again!
Todd Montgomery really came through when I was in a tight spot and helped me finalize
Chapters 21–25 as well as a few other chapters. Thank you, Todd—­you’re a lifesaver!
Chris Crayton tech edited and reviewed each topic in this guide, scrutinizing the material
until we both agreed it was verifiably solid. Thank you, Chris!
About the Author
Todd Lammle is the authority on CompTIA and Cisco certifications and is certified in most
CompTIA and Cisco certification categories.
He is a world-­renowned author, speaker, trainer, and consultant. Todd has three decades
of experience working with LANs, WANs, and large enterprise licensed and unlicensed
wireless networks, and lately he’s been concentrating on implementing large Cisco Security
networks using Snort, Firepower/FTD, ISE, and Stealthwatch.
His years of real-­world experience are evident in his writing; he is not just an author but
an experienced networking engineer with very practical experience from working on the
largest networks in the world, at such companies as Xerox, Hughes Aircraft, Texaco, AAA,
Cisco, and Toshiba, among many others.
Todd has published over 100 books, including the very popular CCNA: Cisco Certified
Network Associate Study Guide, CompTIA Network+ Study Guide, CCNA Wireless Study
Guide, CCNA Data Center Study Guide, SSFIPS (Firepower), and CCNP Security, all from
Sybex.
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spends his free time in the mountains playing with his golden retrievers.
You can reach Todd through his website at www.lammle.com.

About the Technical Editor

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He has worked as a computer technology and networking instructor, information security
director, network administrator, network engineer, and PC specialist. Chris has authored
several print and online books on PC repair, CompTIA A+ exam, CompTIA Security+
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Contents at a Glance
Introduction xxxi

Assessment Test xli

Chapter 1 Introduction to Networks 1
Chapter 2 The Open Systems Interconnection Specifications 31
Chapter 3 Networking Connectors and Wiring Standards 57
Chapter 4 The Current Ethernet Specifications 93
Chapter 5 Networking Devices 129
Chapter 6 Introduction to the Internet Protocol 185
Chapter 7 IP Addressing 231
Chapter 8 IP Subnetting, Troubleshooting IP, and
Introduction to NAT 261
Chapter 9 Introduction to IP Routing 305
Chapter 10 Routing Protocols 325
Chapter 11 Switching and Virtual LANs 365
Chapter 12 Wireless Networking 413
Chapter 13 Using Statistics and Sensors to Ensure Network Availability 469
Chapter 14 Organizational Documents and Policies 505
Chapter 15 High Availability and Disaster Recovery 533
Chapter 16 Common Security Concepts 559
Chapter 17 Common Types of Attacks 581
Chapter 18 Network Hardening Techniques 605
Chapter 19 Remote Access Security 625
Chapter 20 Physical Security 637
Chapter 21 Data Center Architecture and Cloud Concepts 651
Chapter 22 Ensuring Network Availability 725
Chapter 23 Cable Connectivity Issues and Tools 745
Chapter 24 Network Troubleshooting Methodology 771
Chapter 25 Network Software Tools and Commands 825
x Contents at a Glance

Appendix A Answers to Written Labs 887

Appendix B Answers to Review Questions 905
Appendix C Subnetting Class A 939

Index 947
Contents
Introduction xxxi

Assessment Test xli

Chapter 1 Introduction to Networks 1

First Things First: What’s a Network? 3
The Local Area Network 4
Common Network Components 6
Metropolitan Area Network 9
Wide Area Network 9
Personal Area Network 10
Campus Area Network 10
Storage Area Network 10
Software-­Defined Wide Area Network 11
Multiprotocol Label Switching 11
Multipoint Generic Routing Encapsulation 12
Network Architecture: Peer-­to-­Peer or Client-­Server? 12
Physical Network Topologies 14
Bus Topology 14
Star Topology 15
Ring Topology 17
Mesh Topology 17
Point-­to-­Point Topology 18
Point-­to-­Multipoint Topology 19
Hybrid Topology 20
Topology Selection, Backbones, and Segments 21
Selecting the Right Topology 22
The Network Backbone 22
Network Segments 23
Service-­Related Entry Points 23
Service Provider Links 23
Virtual Networking 24
Summary 24
Exam Essentials 25
Written Lab 25
Review Questions 26

Chapter 2 The Open Systems Interconnection Specifications 31

Internetworking Models 32
The Layered Approach 33
Advantages of Reference Models 33
xii Contents

The OSI Reference Model 34

The Application Layer 36
The Presentation Layer 37
The Session Layer 37
The Transport Layer 37
The Network Layer 43
The Data Link Layer 46
The Physical Layer 48
Introduction to Encapsulation 49
Modulation Techniques 50
Summary 51
Exam Essentials 51
Written Lab 52
Review Questions 53

Chapter 3 Networking Connectors and Wiring Standards 57

Physical Media 59
Coaxial Cable 60
Twisted-­Pair Cable 62
Twinaxial Cable 62
Fiber-­Optic Cable 66
Transceivers 71
Media Converters 72
Serial Cables 74
Cable Properties 76
Transmission Speeds 76
Distance 76
Duplex 77
Noise Immunity (Security, EMI) 77
Frequency 77
Wiring Standards 78
T568A vs. T568B 78
Straight-­Through Cable 80
Crossover Cable 81
Rolled/Rollover Cable 83
T1 Crossover Cable 83
Installing Wiring Distributions 85
MDF/IDF 85
Summary 87
Exam Essentials 88
Written Lab 88
Review Questions 89
 Contents xiii

Chapter 4 The Current Ethernet Specifications 93

Network Basics 94
Ethernet Basics 96
Collision Domain 96
Broadcast Domain 97
CSMA/CD 97
Broadband/Baseband 99
Bit Rates vs. Baud Rate 99
Wavelength 99
Half-­ and Full-­Duplex Ethernet 100
Ethernet at the Data Link Layer 102
Binary to Decimal and Hexadecimal Conversion 102
Ethernet Addressing 106
Ethernet Frames 107
Ethernet at the Physical Layer 109
Ethernet over Other Standards (IEEE 1905.1-­2013) 115
Ethernet over Power Line 115
Ethernet over HDMI 117
Bidirectional Wavelength-­Division Multiplexing (WDM) 117
Course Wavelength-­Division Multiplexing (CWDM) 117
Dense Wavelength-­Division Multiplexing (DWDM) 117
Summary 118
Exam Essentials 119
Written Lab 119
Review Questions 124

Chapter 5 Networking Devices 129

Common Network Connectivity Devices 132
Network Interface Card 133
Hub 135
Bridge 135
Switch 136
Router 137
Firewall 141
IDS/IPS 142
HIDS 142
Access Point 142
Wireless Range Extender 143
Wireless LAN Controller 143
Load Balancer 144
Contention Methods 144
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol Server 147
IPAM 152
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 INDEX

(N.B.—All vessels are indexed under Ships named.)

Aberdeen Line, Rennie’s, 183; Thompson’s, 296

Aberdeen schooners, 85
Accidents, steam-ship, inquiry into, 77
Adelaide Steamship Co., 347
Admiralty, the, steam packet, 102; vessels, 176; and floating docks, 356,
362; and private shipbuilding yards, 319; and twin screws, 325; and
wooden three-deckers, 316
Æolipile of Hero of Alexandria, 9
Africa, West, mail service, 261
African Steamship Co., 261, 299
Ailsa Shipbuilding Co., 99
Alabama claims, the, 176
Albany Line, 48
Albion Co., 298
Alexandria-England, carriage of mails, 178
Alexandria-Suez, travel between, 167
Algiers, U.S.A., floating dock, 358
Allaire Works, 173
Allan Line, 254-255, 281
Allen, Dr. John, and jet-propeller, 12
Allison, Messrs. M. A., New Jersey, 50
Altona floating dock, 355
Alvarez, Don José, Chilian Agent, 128
America, steam vessels in, in 1817, 45
America, South, West Coast of, 263
American Civil War, vessels in the, 90, 98, 175, 329; blockade-runners, 327
American ice-breaking steamers, 369-371
American Line, 256, 291
American mail service, 150, 188
American Navy, the, 329, 339
American pioneers in steam navigation, 19
American river steamers, design of, 46
American Shipbuilding Co., 54
American steam-ships and foreign trade, beginnings of, 153
American subsidy to steam-ship service, 155
American train ferry-boats, 363
Amherst, Lord, 164
Anderson, Anderson & Co., 294
Anglo-French Co.’s fleet, 118
Animal-driven paddles, 2
Apcar, Messrs., Calcutta, 264
Appleton’s “Cyclopædia of American Biography,” 19, 23
Armour plates, 331 et seq.
Armstrong, Mitchell & Co., 212, 364
Armstrong, Whitworth & Co., 336, 367, 369
Armstrong, Sir William, and cupola vessels, 330
Aspinwall, C. H., 188
Atlantic cable-laying by Great Eastern, 277
“Atlantic Greyhound” title won by Alaska, 250
Atlantic Liners. See Allan, American, Beaver, Collins, Compagnie Générale
Transatlantique, Cunard, Dominion, Donaldson, Galway, Guion, Hamburg-
Amerika, Inman, National, Norddeutscher Lloyd, Red Star, State, and White
Star Lines
Atlantic records, 241, 250, 282, 288
Atlantic routes adopted, 241
Atlantic service. See Transatlantic
Australia, Cape route to, 291; discovery of gold, 232; first steam voyage to,
94; prize for fastest voyage to, 263
Australian mail service, 185, 295
Australian Royal Mail Steam Navigation Co., 263
Australian service of P. & O. Co., 180
Australian steamers, the coaling of, 256
Australian trade cargo carriers, 294, 297
Austria, Empress of, yacht of, 373
Austrian-Lloyd Steam Navigation Co., 267
Babcock and Wilcox boilers, 359
Baikal, Lake, ferry, 365
Baltic, Swedish railway ferry, 365
Banana trade, West Indies, 299
Barclay, Curle & Co., Ltd., 206, 294
Barnes, Joseph, 20
Barrow-Belfast service, 121
Barrow-Isle of Man service, 96, 121
Barrow Steam Navigation Co., 121
Batteries, floating, 312, 320
Bazin, M., invents steamer on wheels, 387
Beard, Mr., Scotch ironmaster, 115
Beaver Line, 253, 299
Bell, Henry, of Helensburgh, 61; relations with Fulton, 61; designs a
steamboat, 62
Bell indicator for steward, 143
Belt conveyors, 349
Berlin, service to, 117
Bermuda floating dock, 355-357
Bernoulli, Daniel, 207
Bessemer, Sir Henry, and gyroscope boat, 379
Bilge keel, 281
Binney, Capt, L. & N.W.R. Marine Superintendent, 120
Bird-foot propellers, 7, 27, 207
Birmingham, Eagle Foundry, 4
Bishop’s disc engine, 313
Black and Saxton Campbell, Quebec, 134
Blackett, Capt., R.N., 214
Blockade-runners, 90, 98, 174, 175, 327
Blohm and Voss floating dock, 362
Blue Anchor Line, 297
Boats driven by animals, 2
Boats for safety, 78
Boilers, 229-230, 306; without water, 39; pressure, 210; tubular, 209; in
warships, 337
Bombay floating dock, 363
Bombay, steamer launched at, 202
Borrie, Peter, 376
Boston-Liverpool trade, 288
Boulton and Watt engines, 30, 66, 81, 134, 311
Bourne, Messrs., 176
Bourne, William, proposition (1578), 6
Bows of steamers, shape of, 71
Branca, Giovanni, and steam (1629), 9
Brazil trade, 183
Bremen-New York service, 305
Bremen floating docks, 362
Brent, Mr., Deptford, 131
Bridgewater, Duke of, 61
Brighton, 106
Bristol-Waterford trade, 75
British and African Steam Navigation Co., Ltd., 299
British and American Steam Navigation Co., 138, 148
British and Foreign Steam Navigation Co., 110, 111, 177
British and Irish Steam Packet Co., 97
British and North American Royal Mail Steam Packet Co. See Cunard Line
British India Steam Navigation Co., 181, 185
British Queen Steam Navigation Co., 138
British steam-ships, beginnings of, 56
Brown, John, & Co., Clydebank, 337
Brown-Curtis turbine, 337
Brown, Mr. W. H., New York, 158
Brownne, Charles, builder of the Clermont, 36
Brunel, Isambard K., 78, 208, 236, 263; designs the Great Britain, 221; and
the Great Eastern, 269-278
Brunel, Sir Mark, 224
“Bulk freighter,” 82
Bulkheads, 230, 235
Bunker, Captain Elihu S., rivals Fulton, 36, 39
Burmese War, 165
Burns, Mr. John, and Mr. S. Cunard, 150
Bury, Curtice, and Kennedy, Liverpool, 231
Bushnell, David, designs submarines, 206, 276; and applies screw propeller,
206
Caird, Messrs., of Greenock, 119, 241, 293, 294, 305
Calcutta and Burmah Steam Navigation Co., 181
Calcutta, steamers to, via the Cape, 184; and Suez service, 178; to Spithead,
length of passage in 1840, 167
Calcutta Steam Committee, 166
California gold rush, 188
Californian trade, 188
Callao floating dock, 360
Calliope, the, musical instrument, 50
Caloric engines, 384
Cameron, T., & Co., Messrs., 100
Cammell, Laird & Co., 338
Campbell, Johnston & Co., floating dock at Bermuda, 356
Canada, mail steam-ship line to, 254; lines to, 255
Canadian-built lake steamers, 55
Canadian claims for first steam crossing of Atlantic, 135
Canadian ice-breaking steamers, 369-371
Canadian Pacific Railway, 299
Canadian trade, 289
Canso, Straits of, railway ferry, 369
Cantilever-framed steamers, 346
Cape route to India, 167
Cape to Spithead, length of passage (1840), 169
Cape of Good Hope mail subsidy, 183
Cape Town-Durban mails, 183
Cargo-boats, 342-352
Carron Shipping Co., the, 85-87
Carron Works, 56
Cartagena floating dock, 363
Cattle steamers, 345
Caus, Salomon de, 10
Ceylon-Hong-Kong mails, 179
“Chambers’ Journal,” account of the Great Eastern, 271-275
Channel Islands service, 109-112
Chester and Holyhead Railway Co., 103; absorbed by L. & N.W.R., 119
Chili, 189
Chili coal mines, 187
Chilian Revolution, The Rising Star and the, 126
China, P. & O. Co. service to, 180; ships for, 206
China trade, 173; ships in, 265
Chinese paddle-wheels, ancient, 4
Cigar (shaped) ships, 375, 380
City of Dublin Steam Packet Co. See Dublin
Clark, Edwin, and floating docks, 363
Clark and Standfield and floating docks, 355, 361
Cleopatra’s Needle, 341
Clippers, Yankee wooden, 194
Clyde, Bell’s steamboat on the, 62; first Cunarders built on the, 151; first
steamer on the, 28; steamers on the, in 1818, 76. See also Glasgow
Clyde ferries, 366
Clyde to Liverpool, first passenger-steamer, 95
Coach fare, Scotland to London, 85
Coal at Suez, 166
Coal consumption, 229; of turbines, 309; in early voyages across Atlantic,
142
Coal, difficulty of carrying, for long voyages, 169
Coalfields, Midland, 213
Coaling for steamers, 256
Coastal steam-ship service, development of, 80; British, 71
Coasting trade of the United Kingdom in 1822-39, 76, 77
Cochrane, Hon. William E., 127, 129
Cockerill (Belgian firm), 321
“Coffin brigs,” 149
Colden, Cadwallader D., on Robert Fulton, 26
Coles, Capt., and cupola vessels, 330; tripod masts, 332; drowned, 334
Collier belt conveyors, 349
Colliers, screw, 214
Collier, steam, with a screw, first, 213
Collingwood Shipbuilding Co., Ontario, 55
Collins, Mrs., and children drowned, 160
Collins, Mr. K. Edward, New York, 155
Collins Line, 153, 155 et seq.; construction of ships, 158; secures premier
position, 159; extravagances and losses, 159; subsidy reduced and line
ceased, 161; service, 240
Collisions, intentional, 53
Colon, service to, 191
Commercial Steam Packet Co., 111
Compagnie Belge Maritime du Congo, 299
Compagnie Générale Transatlantique, 267
Compañia de Vapores Correos Interinsulares Canarios, 299
Confederate States of America, steamers, 90, 98, 174; commissioners, 262
Connecticut River, Morey’s steamboat on, 24
Continental passenger traffic, 105
Cootes, Mr., Walker-on-Tyne, 211, 213
Cork Steamship Co., 97, 139
Corrugated steam-ship, 349
Craggs, R., & Sons, Ltd., 348, 349
Cramp, Messrs., Philadelphia, 256, 291, 340
Crimean War, 98; iron vessel in the, 316; and shipbuilding yards, 319;
floating batteries, 312, 320; P. & O. steamers employed, 180; steam-ships
in the, 312; transports, 183, 239, 262
Cruisers, armed mercantile, 287, 291
Cunard Line, 281-287; first Cunarder based on Manx steamer, 87;
beginnings, 150; sizes, &c. of first steamers, 151; increase of business,
152; builds iron ships, 153; rivalry with Inman Line, 240; first iron steamer,
243; last paddle-steamer, 246; adopt screw-steamers, 246
Cunard, Mr. Samuel, 134, 149
Curling, Young & Co., Messrs., 138, 146, 187
Curtis turbines, 338
Cutters in Channel Islands service, 109
Cutwaters, straight, 158
Dalswinton, 58
Davey, Mr. W. J., 299
Dawson’s steamer, London-Gravesend, 70
Day Line, 49, 51
Day, Summers & Co., 114
Decks for passengers, 42
Delaware River, early steamboats on the, 25, 29
Dempster, John, 299
Denny Bros., Dumbarton, ships by, 96, 105, 281, 310
Dent & Co., 203
Destroyers, 336
Dewey floating dock, 362
Dicey, Capt., 377
Dickenson, Robert, and iron ships, 195
Dieppe-Honfleur route, 108
Displacement, theory of, 30, 193
Ditchburn and Mare, Blackwall, ships by, 233, 234, 260, 313, 371, 372
Dixon, Sir Raylton, & Co., Ltd., 346
Docks, dry, difficulties of, 353; floating, 352-363
Dod, Daniel, 123
Dodd, Capt., of the Thames, 67
Dominion Line, 243, 288
Donaldson Line, 255
Dover-Calais service, 72, 105; designs to prevent sea-sickness, 377-379;
race, paddle v. screw, 259; proposed railway ferry, 366
Doxford, Messrs., and the rolling of ships’ plates, 345; and shifting cargo in
bulk, 346, 351
Dramatic Line, 155
Dublin and Liverpool Steam Navigation Co., 73, 74
Dublin and London Steam Packet Co., 176
Dublin, City of, Steam Packet Co., 72, 74, 89; service to London, 97; Irish
mail service, 102-104; and transatlantic service, 144
Dublin-London service, 97
Dublin-Wexford service, 98
Duck-foot paddles, 7, 27, 207
Dudgeon, Messrs. J. & W., ships and engines by, 108, 184, 186, 234, 264,
265, 322; expansion engines and screw propellers, 256; first apply twin-
 screws, 325
Duncan, R. (shipbuilder), 151
Dundas, Lord, 28, 57, 59
Dundee, Perth, and London Shipping Co., 87
Dundonald, Lord, 127, 129
Dundrum Bay, Great Britain ashore, 225
Dupuy de Lome, M., 320
Durham, Capt., 264
Dutch steamers, 76
Dynamite gun, 339
East, communication between England and the, 164
East India Co. and steamers to India, 166; inefficiency of service, 176;
services, 180, 181; iron ships for, 317
East Indiamen with auxiliary steam, 167
Eastern Archipelago Co., 235
Eastern Navigation Co., and the Great Eastern, 270 et seq.
Eckford, Henry, naval architect, 42
Edinburgh and Leith Shipping Co., 84
Edinburgh-London service, 81; by sea, 84
Edward VII., yachts of, 371
Egyptian royal yachts (Khedive’s), 372, 374
Elbing-Schichau Works, 303
Elder, Alexander, 299
Elder, Dempster & Co., 262, 298, 299
Elder, John, 229
Elder, John, & Co., Govan, 108, 109, 249, 250, 251, 282, 306
Electric lighting on steamers, 242; incandescent lamps, 281
Ellerman Line, 291
Ellice, Mr. Edward, and Chilian independence, 128
Emigrant traffic to America, 238
Engines: compound, 185, 187, 261; of earliest boats, 199 et seq.; gas
vacuum, 211; Ogden’s, 219; multiple-expansion, 229, 256, 306;
reciprocating, 286; triple-expansion, 296; high-pressure, 306; turbine, 307;
reciprocating and turbine, 310; hot-air, 384; piston engine development,
387
English Channel Steamship Co., 377
English river steamers, construction of, 46
Ericsson, John, hot-air engines, 384; screw propellers, 170, 215, 218
Ericsson Shipping Co., 349
Ericsson’s Monitor, 329
“Etoile” engine, 210
European and Australian Steam Navigation Co., 184, 185
Excursions in early steamboats, 43
Exhibition of 1851, extra traffic from, 107
Fairfield Co., Govan, 96, 109, 301
Fall River Line, 46, 47
Falmouth-Mediterranean service, 176
Fares, passenger, under competition, 74
Faron, Mr., 158
Farragut, Admiral, 175
Fauber (American engineer) and hydroplane, 386
Fawcett & Preston, engines by, 144, 148, 177
Ferguson, Mr. John, 206
Ferry steamers for railway trains, 363-366
Ficket, Francis (Ficket and Crocker), 123
Finland ice-breaker, 369
Fishbourne, Admiral, 316
Fishguard-Rosslare service, 116
Fitch, John, as inventor of steamboats, 21; his ideas taken by Fulton, 23, 24
Fleetwood-Dublin service, 102
Fletcher, W. & A., Co., Hoboken, 51
Floating docks, 352-363
Folkstone-Boulogne service, 106
Forbes, Mr. R. B., Boston, 170
Ford’s (Edward) patent of 1646, 8
Forenade Line of Copenhagen, 117
Fortanini hydroplan, 385
Forth and Clyde Canal, 57, 59
Forwood Line, 300
France-England, first steamer communication between, 72
Franco-German War, 115
Franklin, Benjamin, 21
Freeman, Mr., of Chipping Campden, 13
French Government, experiments in warships, 338; and Crimean War
transports, 240
French steamers entering British ports, 76
French Transatlantic Co., 115
Fulton, Robert, as inventor of steamboats, 19; and drawings of John Fitch,
23, 24; financed by Livingston, 25; his career, 25; experiments with
submarines, 26; corresponds with Lord Stanhope, 27; steamboat
experiments, 28; relations with Symington, 28; the Clermont, 30; list of his
steamboats, 35; relations with Bell & Miller, 61
Funnels, four, 92; masts used as, 212, 218
Fyfe, William, of Fairlie, 66
Galley, Illyrian, propelled by oxen, 6
Galway-America service, 98; to Portland, Maine, 162; to Newfoundland,
route, 162
Galway Line to America, 161-163
Gas-lighting experiment, 253
Gas-machinery propulsion, 340
General Iron Screw-Collier Co., 233
General Screw Shipping Co., 233
General Steam Navigation Co., 81-83; joint service with G.E.R., 117
Genevois (J. A.) propellers (1759), 8
German Emperor’s yacht, 371
German Navy, 303
German shipbuilding, 302; State-developed, 303
Germania shipbuilding establishment, 303
Germanischer Lloyd, 302
Germany as a Naval Power, 339
Gibbs, Antony, & Sons, 227
Gibbs, Bright & Co., 226
Glasgow ferries, 366
Glasgow-Inverness service, 100
Glasgow-Ireland service, 100
Glasgow-Liverpool service, 100. See also Clyde
Glasgow, transatlantic service from, 237
Glasgow and Dublin Screw Steam Packet Co., 101
Glasgow and New York Steamship Co., 240
Gordon & Co., Deptford, 165
Goudie, James, 134
Graham, Osbourne, & Co., 349
Grand Trunk Railway, 255
Gray, Wm., & Co., Ltd., West Hartlepool, 347
Gray’s (McFarlane) steam steering gear, 241
Grayson & Leadley, Liverpool, 73
Great Central Railway Co.’s steamers, 118
Great Eastern Railway Co.’s steamers, 116-118
Great Western Railway Co.’s service to the Channel Islands, 112; other
services, 116
Great Western Steamship Co. formed, 138; and American mails, 150; and
ocean screw steamer, 220
Green, F., & Co., 294
Green, R. & H., & Co., 167, 234, 295, 373
Griffiths, John Wm., 339
Griffith’s propeller, 245
Grimsby-Continent service, 118
Guion, Mr. S. B., founds the Guion Line, 247; progress of the line, 248-251;
death of Mr. Guion and line dissolved, 251
Gurley Bros., 108
Hamburg floating dock, 362
Hamburg-Amerika Linie, 267, 302, 305-306
Hamburg Reiherstieg Shipbuilding Works, 302, 303
Hamilton, William, & Co., Ltd., Port Glasgow, 348
Harland & Wolff, ships built by, 252, 289, 293, 297, 305
Harnden & Co., Boston, 155
Harroway and Dixon cantilever framed steamers, 346
Harwich-Antwerp service, 117
Harwich-Esbjerg service, 117
Harwich-Hook of Holland service, 117
Harwich-Rotterdam service, 117
Havana floating dock, 353
Hawthorn, engine by, 212
Hendersons of Glasgow, 264
Hepworth, Mr. John, 382
Hero of Alexandria and steam, 9
Heysham Harbour, 121
Heysham-Isle of Man service, 121
Hodgson, James, Liverpool, on cost of iron ships, 230; introduces tubular
iron vessels, 235
Hogg & Co., New York, 172
Hogging and sagging, 46, 194, 268
Hogging frame, Stevens’, 46, 194
Hollar’s submarine (1653), 375
Holyhead-Dublin service, 72, 103, 110
Holyhead-Greenore service, 120
Holyhead-Kingstown service, 204
Hong-Kong-Sans Francisco, White Star service, 243
Hong-Kong-Shanghai service, 203
Hook of Holland, 117
Horseley & Co., Tipton, 110
Horseley Iron Works, 195
Hough, Samuel, & Co., 100
Howden’s forced draught, 366
Howell’s “homogeneous metal,” 279
Huddart, Parker & Co. Proprietary, Ltd., 97
Hudson River steamboats, 25, 29, 30, 47; screw boats, 207
Hudson River Day Line, 49
Hulls, double, 270, 347, 375; triple, 388
Hulls, Jonathan, as inventor of the steamboat, 12
Humber, Continental service from the, 118
Hunt, Seth, of Louisiana, 45
Hydraulic propulsion, 321-325
Hydrocurve, 385
Hydroplan, 385
Hydroplane, 386
Iceberg, Guion liner’s escape from, 250
Ice-breaking steamers, 367-371
Imperial Direct West India Mail service, 299
India, first steamer built in, 202; steam communication with, 164;
Government subsidy, 164; purchase vessel, 165; mails to, 176, 177; traffic
to, 184
Indian Mutiny, P. & O. steamers employed owing to, 180
Indian rivers, navigation of, 205
Indus, the, steamers on, 202
Inglis, A. & J., Glasgow, ships built by, 86, 184, 185, 206, 374
Inman and International Line, 290-291
Inman Line, 237-243; rivalry with Cunard Line, 240; absorbed by American
Line, 256
Inman, Mr. William, 237, 243
Intercolonial Railway, Canada, 255
International Navigation Co. acquires Inman steamers, 243
Ireland, early iron ships in, 196
Ireland-England, first steam communication, 71
“Irish Brigade,” 262
Irish cross-Channel service rivalry, 74
Irish mail, &c., traffic, 102, 119
Iron barge, experimental, 195
Ironclads, advent of, 320; without masts, 333
Iron ships: first on Long Island Sound, 47; first cross-Channel, 75;
introduction of screw propellers, 97; introduction of iron, 191; length of,
194; suitability, 193; saving in weight, 194; proposal to build iron ships
decided, 195; first vessel for commercial purposes, 195; first iron steamer,
195; growth of iron shipbuilding, 196 et seq.; strange vessels, 211;
developments, 230; cost of iron ships, 230; tubular type, 235; first
Cunarder, 243; Admiralty’s conservatism against iron, 316
Isherwood system of construction, 348
Isle of Man, Liverpool, and Manchester Co., 96
Isle of Man Steam Packet Co., 87-94. See also Man, Isle of
Ismay, Mr. T. H., 251
Ismay, Imrie & Co., 296
Jackson, Mr. W., 132
Jamaica fruit trade, 299
Jamson, Dougal, and the steamboat, story of, 62
Japanese engineers, story of, 203
Japanese submarines, 301
Japanese warship building, 339
Jersey fisheries guardship, 110
Jersey-France service, 112
Jesuit Fathers of Peking, “Memoires” of, 4
Johnston, Lieut., 164
Jointed Ship Co., 380
Jones, Sir Alfred L., 298, 299
Jones, Dr. P., and single screw, 209
Jordan, J., & Co., engines by, 248
Jouffroy d’Abbans, Marquis de, 15
Kiel naval harbour, 303
Kier, Mr., engineer, 130
Kirk, Dr. Alexander, and triple-expansion engines, 296, 306
Kirkaldy, David, drawings by, 243; and hardening of steel, 279
Klawitter, Dantzic, 303
Laird, Messrs., Birkenhead, ships built by, 75, 119, 262, 279, 316, 317, 332,
334
Laird, Alex., & Co., Messrs., 100
Laird, John, of Birkenhead, and iron shipbuilding, 196
Laird, Mr. Macgregor, 138, 261
Lake steamers, American, 51
Lange, Johann, shipyard, 302
Langley, Messrs. C., Deptford, 373
Langtry Co., of Belfast, 74
Lardner, Dr., and transatlantic steam navigation, 137
Launch, Indian custom at, 202
Law, George, and American mails, 188
Leith and Berwick Co., 84
Lever, Mr., of Manchester, 162
“Leviathans,” 270
Life-boats as paddle-boxes, 79
Life-buoys, belts, &c., 78
Lighting of ships, 253
Lindsay’s boiler-scaling apparatus, 203
Little, James, & Co., Messrs., 95-97
Littlehampton, 108
Liverpool and tugboats, 341; first iron screw steamer from, 235; dock to
accommodate American liners, 157; steam-ship companies, 77
Liverpool, voyage of the Elizabeth to, from Glasgow, 64
Liverpool-Bristol service, 100
Liverpool-Dublin mail service, 102
Liverpool-Isle of Man service, 87-94, 96
Liverpool-Kingstown service, 144
Liverpool-London service, 98, 99
Liverpool-New York service, 240
Liverpool-Philadelphia service, 240
Liverpool-Valparaiso service, 264
Liverpool and Philadelphia Steamship Co., 238
Liverpool, New York, and Philadelphia Steamship Co., 240
Livingston, Chancellor R., and Morey’s steamboats, 24; finances Fulton, 25;
experiments in steam propulsion, 208
Livingstone expedition, steel steamer for, 279
Livingston’s “Historical Account of the Application of Steam for the Propelling
of Boats,” 19
Lloyd’s, first steamer entered at, 100
Lodge-Muirhead wireless telegraphy, 121
London and tugboats, 341; shipbuilding, 233-234; City Corporation
employees and the Watermen’s Co., 80; County Council steamers, 367;
river steamboat service opened, 66
London, Glasgow to, first steamer, 66
London-Hamburg service, 117
London-Margate service, 70
London and Edinburgh Shipping Co., 83-85
London and Leith Shipping Co., 84
London and North-Western Railway Co.’s steamers, 119-121
London and South-Western Railway Co.’s steamers, 109-116; Manx boat
purchased from, 93
London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway Co.’s steamers, 106-109
London, Leith, and Edinburgh Shipping Co., 74
Long Island Sound, First iron steamboat on, 47
Long Island Sound Line, 40
Longitudinal system of ship construction, 268, 348
Louis Philippe of France, escape of, 113
Louvre Museum, Kirkaldy’s designs in, 246
Lund, Mr. W., 297
Lungley, Mr., ship built by, 264
Lyttleton, Wm., 207
McDougall, Capt., 55
McGregor, Mr. John, and early Chinese paddle-wheels, 4
McGregor, Laird & Co., 196
MacIver, Mr. David, and Mr. S. Cunard, 150
McKean, McLarty, and Lament, 254
Mackenzie, William, master of the Comet, 63
McKinnon & Co., Glasgow, 181
MacLachlan, Archibald, 66
McQueen, Robert, 39, 52
Mahmoudieh Canal, 179
Mails, officer in charge of, to West Indies, 190
Mails to America, 149; to India, 176, 177; to Ireland, 102
Makaroff, Vice-Admiral, 367
Malcomson’s London and Dublin Line, 99
Malta floating dock, 363
Man, Isle of, first steamers at, 88; first built there, 89; history of the Manx
service, 87-94; Barrow service, 96
Manby, Mr., 195
Maples and Morris, Messrs., 106, 107
Mare’s Shipyard, Blackwall. See Ditchburn and Mare
Marine engines. See Engines
Marinsky Canal, 364
Maryland Steel Co., Baltimore, floating docks, 358, 362
Maschinenbau-Gesellschaft, 303
Mason, Mr., 262
Masts on steam-ships, 41; used as funnels, 212, 218; tripod, 332; on
warships, 338
Mastless steamers, 346
Maudslay, Sons & Field, founder of the firm, 70; engines by, 148, 201, 202,
233, 253, 319, 372; connection with the Royal Navy, 311; yards of, 234
Maury, Lieut., 241
Mediterranean ports, 111
Mediterranean service, 267
Merchants’ Shipping Co., 47
Mersey ferries, 366
Messageries Maritimes de France, 267
Mexican Government and iron frigate, 316
Mexican War, 174
Middleton Yard, Hartlepool, 305
Midland Railway Co.’s steamers, 121
Milford-Rosslare service, 116
Millard and Kirby, Messrs., and Fulton’s Clermont, 50
Miller and Ravenhill, engines by, 187, 372
Miller, Patrick, 57, 58, 388
Mills, Mr. Edward, 154
Mississippi River steamers, 53; Fitch’s steamboat, 23; Fulton’s steamboat, 32;
Moselle and Oroonoko blown up, 53; intentional collisions, 53
Mitchell, Mr. Charles, 212
Monaco, Prince of, yacht of, 373
“Monitors,” 334
Monroe, President, 123
Moore, Admiral Sir Grayham, 217
Moray, John, on James Rumsay as inventor of steamboats, 19
Morey, Samuel, invents a steamboat, 24
Morgan Combine, 228
Morisot’s “Orbis Maritimi,” 6
Morland, Sir S., 10
Motor-boats (hydroplane), 385; (hydrocurve), 385
Napier, Admiral Sir Charles, 195
Napier, David, and the boiler of the Comet, 63; and the shape of bows of
steamers, 71; provides engines, 72
Napier, Robert & Sons, engines by, 72, 88, 89, 147, 151, 157; and Mr. S.
Cunard, 149; present engine of the Comet to South Kensington Museum,
64; and David Kirkaldy, 243; and high-pressure boilers of steel, 279
Napoleon III., yacht of, 373
National Line, 254
Naval Construction Co., Barrow, 99
Navy, Royal, steam-power and the, 311-340; last wooden battleship, 319;
first twin-screw boat, 328; ironclads without masts, 333; torpedo boats,
336; destroyers, 336; development, 336
Neilson, Walter N., 229
New England Ocean Steamship Co., 155
New York celebrates the arrival of early steamers, 141
New York-Aspinwall mails, 188
New York-Bremen service, 154
New York-Chagres line, 188
New York-Havana service, 189
New York-Liverpool, lines in 1850, 155
New York and Havre Steam Navigation Co., 154
New York Shipbuilding Co., Camden, N.J., 51
New Zealand Government subsidy, 185; service to, 298
New Zealand Shipping Co., 310
Newcomen and Savery, 11
Newfoundland Government and mails, 162
Newhaven-Dieppe service, 106
Newport News Shipbuilding, &c., Co., 340
Niger exploration, 280
Norddeutsche Werft, 303
Norddeutscher Lloyd, 267, 302, 303-305
Normand, A, Havre, 373
North Lancashire Railways, 102, 103
North Sea, 84
Northumberland Straits passenger service, 370
Oak, scarcity of, and use of iron for ships, 195
Ocean liner, express, modern type of, 252
Ocean Steam Navigation Co., 154
Oceanic Steam Navigation Co., 252
Ogden, Mr., American Consul, 219
Oil-tank steamers, 348, 351
Oldham’s revolving bars, 195
Orient Line, 264, 291, 294-296
Orient-Pacific Line, 295
Orient Royal Line, 295
Original Steam Packet Co., 72
Ostend-Dover service, 309
Oude, Rajah of, generosity of, 165
Ouseburn engine works, 306
Overcrowding passenger steamers, 79
“Overland Route” to India. See Suez
Pacific coast of S. America trade, 187
Pacific and Australasian Co., 239
Pacific Mail Line, 188
Pacific Steam Navigation Co., 186, 187, 189, 191, 229, 263, 291, 294, 295
Paddle-wheels, evolution of, 1; motive-power, 1; animal-driven, 2; early
forms, 2, 4; early experiments, 10, 12; Jouffroy’s invention, 17; Morey’s
inventions, 24; Roosevelt’s invention, 25; Patrick Miller’s invention, 58;
vertical, 25; disconnecting, 33; Seward’s invention, 110; development in
construction, 197-199; duck-foot paddles, 207; elliptical, 208; horizontal
centrifugal, 208; superseded by screw, 191
Paddle v. screw races, 259; tests, 312
Paddle-boxes as lifeboats, 78
Palmer, Sir Charles, 214
Palmer Bros. & Co., ships built by, 114, 213, 247, 248; and rolled armour
plates, 385
Panama-Astoria service, 189
Panama-San Francisco mails, 188, 189
Panama, New Zealand, and Australian Royal Mail Co., 185
Panama Railway, 174, 187, 191, 262
Panama route, 187
Panciroli’s “Rerum memorabilium,” 6
Papal yacht, 372
Papin, Dr. Dennis, inventions of, 11
Paris Exhibition, 1878, traffic, 109
Parsee custom at launch, 202
Parsons, Hon. A. C., on turbines, 307
Parsons turbines, 118, 307, 338
Passengers carried by Sirius across Atlantic, 141; first steamer for passengers
and cargo, 72
Patersen, Capt. Robert, 86
Paterson of Bristol, 141, 221
Paul, Capt. Fred, R.N., 113
Paulding, James Kirke, 339
Peacock, Capt. George, and mechanical swan yacht, 383
Pearse & Co., Stockton-on-Tees, 205
Penarth floating dock, 359
Peninsular and Oriental (P. & O.) Co., incorporated, 178; first steamer to
India, 179; transport over Suez isthmus, 179; services to India and China,
180; subsidy for Indian mails, 180; Australian service, 180; difficulties on
opening of Suez Canal, 182; overland route through Egypt closed, 182;
ships, 260-261; increase of size of ships, 291, 293; and Australian trade,
294; acquires Blue Anchor Line, 297
Peninsular Steam Navigation Co., 176-178; becomes the P. & O. Co., 178
Penn, John, and Son, engines by, 226, 233, 260; oscillating engines, 201,
314; number of engines fitted by, 315; for the Crimean War, 319; and
screw bearings, 219
Périer’s fire pump, 16
Perkins’ tri-compound engines, 306
Peru, 189
Petroleum steamers, 351
Philadelphia Line, 43
Philippines, floating dock for, 362
Phillips, Sir Richard, 69
Pirrie, Lord, 298
Porter’s patent anchor, 223
Portsmouth-Ryde, 232
Potomac, early steamboats on the, 20
Powell (H. & Co.) Line, 99
Propeller, screw. See Screws
Propelling vessels by recoil from cannon, 8; by animals, 2; by steam, early
experiments, 10-11; by pumping water, 12; by screws, 29. See also
Paddle-wheels
Propelling without paddles, reward for, 210
Pyroscaphe, the, 15
Quebec and Halifax Steam Navigation Co., 134
Racing, Ocean, 247; steamboat, 53; paddle v. screw, 259
Railway companies and their steamships, 102-121
Railway trains, ferrying of, 363-366
Ramage and Ferguson, Ltd., Leith, 375
Rams, 329
Ramsay’s (David) patent boats (1618), 6
Ramus, Rev. C. M., and hydroplane, 386
Randolph, Charles, 229
Randolph, Elder & Co., 229
Rangoon wooden dock, 354
Rate wars, 74, 80, 94
Rateau turbines, 307
Red Cross Line, 231
Red Sea steamer service, 166; to the Mediterranean transport, 179
Red Star Line, 256
Refrigerators, 298
Registration of steamers, 77
Reid, Mr. E. J., designs Koenig Wilhelm, 333
Reid’s U bow, 332
Reiherstieg yard, Hamburg, 302, 303
Rennie, Capt. George, 183
Rennie’s “Aberdeen” Line, 183
Rennie, G. & J., engines by, 233, 313; and Ship Propeller Co., 216; floating
docks, 355, 363
Renwick, Dr. James, 29
Repairs to steam-ships, 300
Reversing machinery, 70
Richardson Bros. & Co., 238, 239
Rivalry between steam-ship companies, 73
Roberts, Lieut., R.N., 138, 145
Robertson, John, 62
Robertson, Robert, engineer, 63
Robinson and Russell, 232, 319
Roebuck, Dr., 86
Rogers, Capt., of the Savannah, 125
Rogers, Moses, pioneer steam navigator, 30, 123
Roosevelt, Nicholas J., invents paddle-boat, 25; associated with Fulton, 42;
experiments in steam propulsion, 208
Ropner & Sons, Ltd., 348
Rostock “Neptun” yard, 302
Rotterdam, railway round, 117
Rouss, Mr. W. P., yacht of, 374
Royal Academy, steam-ship designs exhibited at, 245
Royal Mail Steam Packet Co., 185, 189-191, 262-263, 291, 295, 299-300
Royal Netherlands Steamship Co., 91
Royal yachts, 371-374
Rubic and Blaker, Northam, 110
Rudders, bow, 106; balanced for turbine vessels, 105; submerged, 290
Rumsay, James, as the inventor of the steamboat, 19
Rumsay Society, 21
Rupert, Prince Palatine, and boat propeller, 11
Rushen, Mr. P. C., on Jonathan Hulls’ invention, 14
Russell & Co., clipper built by, 173
Russell, Robinson & Co., 107
Russell, Mr. Scott, and the Wave Queen, 107; and wave-line construction,
236, 316, 320; shipbuilding on the Thames, 204, 234; designs Victoria,
263; and the Great Eastern, 268, 278
Russian Government ice-breaker, 367; Navy floating dock, 363; royal yachts,
371, 373
Ruthven’s hydraulic propulsion, 208, 321-325
“Sag,” 46, 194, 268
Sail power on liners, 158
Sailing clippers, American, fast passages of, 153
Sailing vessels, engines put into, 135, 136; vessel with steam as auxiliary
crosses Atlantic, 122; steam auxiliary to, 164-192
St. George Steam Packet Co., 72, 94, 97, 100, 101
St. Lawrence River ice-breaker, 369
Saloons above deck first fitted, 206; oscillating, 253
Samuda Bros., 204, 234
San Francisco Union Iron Works, 340
Saône, paddle-steamer on the (1783), 17
Sassnitz-Trelleborg railway ferry, 365
Sault Ste. Marie Canal, 52
Savery, Thomas, invention of, 11
Scarborough and Isaacs, Messrs., 122
Schlick balancing of engines, 120
Schultz turbines, 388
Scott, Capt., of Rising Star, 131
Scott, Mr. John, figure-head of, 318
Scott, Russell & Co., Millwall, 204
Scott, Sinclair & Co., Greenock, 318
Screw propellers, invention of 29; first Manx steamer to use, 92; for sea-
going steamers, 97; supersede paddle-wheels, 191; tried in 1802, 192;
earliest attempts to apply, 206, 207; movement of vessels with single
screw, 209; twin-screws, 210; first ocean steamer with twin-screws, 265;
fantastic forms, 215; first sea-going vessel with screw, 216; definitely
adopted, 219; lifting propeller, 253; for long voyages, 256; adopted for
mail boats, 262; multiple screws, 310; first vessel in the Royal Navy with,
313; removable screws, 318; twin screws, 325; tests of twin screws, 326
Sea-sickness, steamers to prevent, 253, 377-379
Sea voyage, first British steamer to make a, 64
Seamen, pay of, in 1821, 132
Seaward and Capel, Limehouse, 169
Seaward, J., & Co., Millwall, 373
Seaward’s vibrating paddles, 110
Seine, first iron steamer on the, 195
Sewall & Co., 194
Sewell and Faron, 158
Shaw, Savill & Albion Co., 297
Shelter deck, 344
Ship Propeller Co., 216
Shipbuilding, German competition, 302. See also Thames
Ships named:
Aaron Manby, 195
Aberdeen, 296, 307
Achilles, 315
Aconcagua, 264
Active, 311
Ada, 116
Adelaide, 269
Adirondack, 48, 170
Admiral Moorsom, 119
Adriatic, 161, 163, 253, 289
Aetna, 35
Africa, 153, 155
African, 176
Agamemnon, 315
Aguila, 112
Ajax, 315
Alabama, 175
Alaska, 172, 250
Alberta, 116
Alecto, 312
Alexandra (L. & S.W.R.), 116
Alexandra (L. & N.W.R.), 119
Alexandra (Royal Yacht), 371
Alice, 115
Alida, 49
Alliance, 113, 114
Alma, 114, 116
Amazon, 300
America (Cunard Co.), 152, 245, 286
America (National Line), 254
America (Yacht), 158
American Turtle, 376
Amerika, 305
Amethyst, 309, 335
Anglia, 104, 120
Anglo-Saxon, 255
Annette, 173
Antarctic, 157
Antelope, 235
Antrim, 121
Apollo, 110
Aquila, 107
Arabia, 153
Arago, 154
Aragon, 300
Araguaya, 300
Arcadia, 151
Archimedes, 216, 222
Arctic, 157-160
Argyle, 66
Ariadne, 110, 316
Arizona, 249
Arkansas, 340
Armenia, 51
Arrogant, H.M.S., 314
Arundel, 109
Asia, 153, 157
Assiniboia, 301
Assyrian, 316
Astarte, 255
Asturias, 300
Atalanta, 116, 110, 111, 166
Athenia, 255
Athole, 206
Atlantic, 156, 158
Atrato, 271
Augusta, 99
Aurania, 281
Aurora, 327
Austral, 295
Australasian, 296
Avoca, 99
Avon, 222, 300