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Steamships started to import pineapples to Britain regularly from the colonies and the prices consequently dropped.

From BBC • Aug. 1, 2020

Steamships began crossing the Atlantic in 1838, and a voyage that once took months now took fifteen days, though service remained costly and unreliable for decades.

From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018

Steamships also radically altered travel; George Barker wove an elegantly steamy romance from a ship churning toward people in port, circa 1886.

From New York Times • Jul. 6, 2017

Steamships like Barry were being replaced by gas turbine ships,” Kehrig says.

From Washington Times • Sep. 19, 2015

Steamships by way of the Suez Canal generally call at Perth and Adelaide.

From Commercial Geography A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges by Redway, Jacques W. (Jacques Wardlaw)