He launched the first steamship used for regular ocean crossings, the Great western.

The first steamship to cross the Atlantic was a British enterprise.

That was the year the first steamship, the "Savannah," crossed the ocean.

He sailed from Cherbourg on the first steamship calling there.

His granduncle, Stephen Vail, had built the engines for the first steamship to cross the Atlantic.

He it was who forged the shaft of the Savannah, the first steamship which crossed the Atlantic.

One bankrolled the first steamship.

A cablegram announcing the death plunged the Ryerson family into mourning and they boarded the first steamship for this country.

Fulton had completed his invention in 1807, and in 1819 the first steamship had crossed the Atlantic.

It was much longer than any steamer of the day, and was the first steamship built to make regular voyages across the Atlantic.

The Savannah, named for the first steamship to cross the Atlantic Ocean in 1819, was in every sense of the word a showcase.

As it chugged and caterpillared from town through the Reservation, Chris Christopherson's tractor caused almost as much excitement as the first steamship up the Hudson.

It was during this sensational decade, too, that the first steamships crossed the Atlantic.

In 1896 the first steamships started bringing tourists from Norway.

They would have seen the slow sailing ships, the first steamships, the lines of steel tracks that carried our first trains.

"It's me for home on the first steamship going north," I told myself, wisely.