Buch, Englisch, 338 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 550 g
Buch, Englisch, 338 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 550 g
Reihe: Cambridge Library Collection - History
ISBN: 978-1-108-02469-3
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
Sir 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.
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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.
