The word "steamship" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to refer to a ship that is powered by steam, often in historical contexts.
Example: "The steamship sailed across the Atlantic, carrying passengers and cargo to the New World."
Alternatives: "Steamer" or "Steam vessel."
On Saturday, I went on a trip on the Sir Walter Scott steamship round Loch Katrine in the Scottish Trossachs: a fine boat with a small bar offering such delights as the Rob Roy (Baileys and hot chocolate).
The steamship made it over the mountain.
IN 1985 a Chinese steamship, the Bashan, chugged down the Yangzi river, carrying an unusual cargo: ten foreign economists, including one Nobel prize-winner, and almost twice as many Chinese counterparts from the government and academia.
That time had been halved by the 1830s, and the "Great Western" steamship in 1838 halved it again to 15 days.
Millions more pilgrims have travelled by road from Istanbul and Damascus or by dhow and steamship from Singapore and Mumbai, tacking carefully around the coral outcrops of the Red Sea.
But the battle's status as a national symbol of bravery and sacrifice is now shared with the SS Mendi, a steamship that sank in 1917 after being accidentally rammed in the British Channel en route to France, with the loss of 607 members of the South African Labour Corps, nine officers and all 33 crew.
In the 1800s it was the spread of the steamship and refrigeration, the expansion of railroads and the invention of the telegraph that gave a push to globalisation.
It was there too for a wave of technological innovation analogous to that brought by the railway boom, the electric telegraph and the steamship in the early decades of Wilson's Economist.
While the steamship "Morea" was berthed in Marseille harbour, he slipped away from his guards, leapt, almost naked, into the sea and swam ashore.
Oriental themes crept into painting and architecture, notably that of the steamship offices near Trafalgar Square, the romantic gateway to the empire.
When Mr Martin, who ran a big steamship line before entering politics, said he would follow party rules and disclose his list 30 days before the convention, his rival retorted that the delegates would have been chosen weeks before.
