0 a boat or ship that moves by steam power --
1 a container with holes in the bottom that is put over boiling water in order to cook food in steam, or a machine that cooks food with steam: --
We only built seven steamers for foreign owners in the whole of the shipyards of the country last year.
I do not want to take the lifeboats or the lifebelts out of these steamers.
Up to the present moment steamers aggregating something over 6,000 tons have been utilised for this purpose.
I could also give the case of two steamers which were bought to be broken up in order to give employment, and what happened?
They will require the steamers all the same.
I trust that an opportunity will be given to raise, and discuss the question of the utilisation of the interned steamers.
The cost of the six steamers as delivered in this country was about £294,000.
I listened with great interest to the speeches made as to the condition of steamers and merchant vessels.