The British Navy
The British Navy
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inc GSTSir Thomas Brassey (1836–1918), later Earl Brassey, was a politician with a particular interest in maritime affairs. He was a keen sailor, and his wife's accounts of their many voyages (also reissued in this series) were bestsellers. He subsequently became a Lord of the Admiralty and Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, and Brassey's Naval Annual was for many years the authoritative survey of worldwide navies. This five-volume survey of the state of the British Navy was published between 1882 and 1883. Brassey was much involved with questions of the modernisation and reform of the Navy, at a time when international relations were marked by a maritime arms race. The books provide much technical detail about the different types of ship and weapons available to the Navy. Volume 5 (originally published in 1877 as British Seamen) discusses the merchant navy and the training of seamen.
Product details
December 2010Paperback
9781108024693
338 pages
229 × 19 × 152 mm
0.5kg
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Table of Contents
- Preface to fifth volume
- Part VIII. Mercantile Marine:
- 1. Has the British seaman deteriorated?
- 2. The present condition of our seamen
- 3. The annual waste of seamen in the merchant service
- 4. Apprentices
- 5. Existing training-ships
- 6. Recruiting for training-ships
- 7. Age of admission of boys into training-ships
- 8. The training system: who is to pay for it?
- 9. Plans for training seamen
- 10. Government training-ships
- 11. Apprenticeship for the Naval Reserve
- 12. Desertion
- 13. Wages of seamen
- 14. The advance note
- 15. Pensions for seamen
- 16. Speech on a pension fund for seamen
- 17. Pensions to merchant seamen
- 18. Health of seamen afloat
- 19. Undermanning
- 20. Certificates to able seamen
- 21. Officers of the merchant service
- 22. Power of British shipowners to compete with foreigners
- 23. Supply of seamen in foreign countries
- 24. How best to improve and keep up the seamen of the country
- 25. Recent legislation affecting British seamen
- 26. Marine insurance (speech in House of Commons)
- Index.
