The British Navy
Its Strength, Resources, and Administration

This comprehensive survey of the British Navy at a time of technological development was published between 1882 and 1883.

Thomas Brassey (Author)

9781108024693, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 16 December 2010

338 pages
22.9 x 1.9 x 15.2 cm, 0.5 kg

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.

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.

Subject Areas: Military history [HBW]