What was the English World Economic Championship?

It is mainly about the 19th century, since at the beginning of the 20th century, even on the eve of the First World War, England began to lose in the economic competition to the United States (in the auto industry, for example).

The world economic primacy consisted in the fact that England was in the lead as the world carrier, she had the most numerous merchant and military fleet. She had a record cargo turnover in commercial ports.

In addition, England became the “workshop of the world” for several decades, it was the flagship of the industrial revolution. The first railways appeared there and their mass construction began, in 1865 even the metro was built.

Also, England siphoned out a huge amount of resources from their colonies, for example, from India.