CHAPTER V

.—1816 to 1818—London packets, the DEFIANCE, MAJESTIC,

REGENT—Loss of the REGENT (1817)—Liverpool and Eastham Packet, PRINCESS CHARLOTTE (1816)—Liverpool and Tranmere Packets REGULATOR, ETNA (1817)—Parkgate and Bagillt Packet, ANCIENT BRITON (1817)—Loss of the REGULATOR (1818)—First Spanish Steamer, ROYAL FERDINAND (1817)—Siberian Steamboats (1817)—David Napier—The ROB ROY, HIBERNIA (1816) 23

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