Talk:Cargo liner
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The second category of coastal and short-sea steamship was the cargo liner which often combined the carriage of freight with passengers. Such shipping was deployed in more or less regular services, offering merchants and traders a schedule of rates, and accepting highly heterogeneous cargoes ranging fron the common domestic necessaries to raw materials, semi-manufactures and finished products.
Craig, Robin (1980), "Steam Tramps and Cargo Liners 1850-1950", The Ship, vol. 5, Ipswich: National Maritime Museum/W.S.Cowell Ltd. for Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, p. 47, ISBN 0-1129-0315-0 {{citation}}
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A few points:
- Cargo liners include vessels in short-sea and coastwise trades.
- While the quote above is from a chapter entitled The coasting and short-sea trades, the book in general and other sources make it clear that cargo liners include seagoing vessels that traded all over the world.
- It appears that passenger capacity was common but not necessarily present in all cargo liners.
- Colliers are not included in the category; it seems more applicable to general merchandise as well as raw materials.
- Tramp steamers are differentiated from cargo liners.
- Ocean liners, primarily designed for the transport of passengers, do not fit within the category even though virtually all carried some freight.