Shipping revolutions generally take their time, creeping up on unsuspecting shipowners who just want to get on with managing ships and moving cargo. This was certainly true of the steam shipping revolution - there was a gap of 63 years between the first steam powered voyage on a Scottish canal by Charlotte Dundas and Alfred Holt's ability to piece together a ship, the Agamemnon, capable of making the voyage to Asia with only a single bunkering stop in Mauritius and 75% of the deadweight available for cargo. Then the sailing ships fought back, incorporating the latest technology (steel hulls, steam winches, wire cables etc) and were still trading in the 1920s, by which time a completely new industry organisation had emerged.
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