Ships of Peace. A record of some of the problems which came before the Board of Trade in connection with the British mercantile marine from the early days to 1885
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- Author(s) Parkhurst, Peter G
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1962
- Pages 419pp
- Publisher The author
- Place Published New Malden
Topics:
- Name Health & safety at work inc legislation & regulation
- Name Worker / employee wages & remuneration
- Name Worker / employee welfare inc working conditions, compensation, etc
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- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
Compiled [in retirement] by a former records officer in the Board of Trade who between c1935 and 1939 scrutinised the Board's archives in connection with their transfer to the Public Record Office [The National Archives]. Describes and comments on groups of documents largely relating to British merchant shipping which he reviewed in this process and which took his interest. Structured in six parts: 1] 'Genesis of the Board of Trade' [14 subjects]; 2] 'Royal commissions and inquiries into staffing' [27 subjects]; 3] 'Call for a mercantile marine department' [6 subjects]; 4] 'Registrar General of Seamen & Shipping' [9 subjects]; 5] 'Samuel Plimsoll' [1 subject]; 6] 'Provision of funds' [50 subjects]