British and American Steam Navigation Company

The British and American Steam Navigation Company was a steamship line that operated a regular transatlantic service from 1839 to 1841.

[4] Before he returned to London, he published the idea of building a line of transatlantic steamships in a November 1832 issue of the American Rail Road Journal.

[5] The design for the company's first unit, British Queen was finished after the details of the Great Western's first ship became known.

[1] Rather than build the four 1,200 GRT units as planned in the prospectus,[5] British and American decided to make its first ship substantially bigger.

The delay cost British and American a critical 18 months while work on Great Western continued.

Smith accused Napier of dragging his feet while he completed other contracts for the British and Russian Governments.

British and American immediately ordered a consort, President, which was double the size of Cunard's Britannia of the same year.