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Steamships carried people and supplies up the rivers of Africa and Asia, opening these continents to explorers, missionaries, and soldiers.

From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022

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

From BBC • Aug. 1, 2020

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

But what I contemplate as a beginning is not the bringing in of the Steamships but of their Mails.

From Glances at Europe In a Series of Letters from Great Britain, France, Italy, Switzerland, &c. During the Summer of 1851. by Greeley, Horace