Our Seamen: An AppealVirtue & Company, 1873 - 128 páginas |
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13 Inches allowed ashore asked Assurers barque Bill Board of Trade boat bolts brigantines broker built called captain cargo carry causes cent Centre coasts collier Committee COMPOSITE SHIPS crew dangerous deck depth of hold Duncansby Head evil feet foot foundered gale give go to sea Government half Height HELIOTYPE House inquiry inspection iron James Hall Keelson Length unlimited lengthened less Liverpool Underwriters lives Lloyd's Register load line London loss lost main-deck matter merchant Metropolitan Board Metropolitan Building nearly Newcastle Newcastle-on-Tyne opinion overloading owner Parliament Party Wall passengers persons Petitioners plate poor port premium prevent remedy repairs risk rule safety sailing sailors SAMUEL PLIMSOLL scale seamen sent ship-owner side spar-decked ship steam ships steamers Story survey surveyors Table Thickness tons unclassed ships United Kingdom unseaworthy vessels voyage Wall Warehouse weather wind WRECK CHART wrecks and casualties
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Página 88 - ROCK of Ages, cleft for me, Let me hide myself in Thee ! Let the water and the blood, From Thy riven side which flowed, Be of sin the double cure, Cleanse me from its guilt and power.
Página 89 - ONE there is, above all others, Well deserves the name of Friend; His is love beyond a brother's, Costly, free, and knows no end ; They who once His kindness prove, Find it everlasting love.
Página 13 - ... of 700 tons is absorbed by expenses — wages of seamen, cost of fuel, wear and tear, interest of capital, cost of insurance, &c. — leaving the freight on the remaining 200 tons as profit to the owner, it is clear that by loading an additional 200 tons the profits are doubled, while the load is only increased by about a quarter more.
Página 55 - ... clear if she went down, by overinsurance), and I knew that there were many others almost as unfit as she was to encounter rough weather — ships so rotten, that if they struck they would go to pieces at once; ships so overloaded, that every sea would make a clean sweep over them, sending tons and tons of water into the hold every time, until the end came. ' On 'Monday, we heard of a ship in distress having been seen ; rockets had been sent up by her; it was feared she was lost. On Tuesday, a...
Página 74 - I may have to tell the House of a man, whose name you will hear in any coffee-room or exchange in Yarmouth, Hull, Scarborough, Whitby, Pickering, Blythe, Shields, Newcastle, Sunderland, or in any port on the north-east coast, as one notorious for excessive and habitual overloading, and a reckless disregard for human life, who has lost seven ocean-going steamers, and drowned more than a hundred men, in less than two years,* and whose name I have myself seen as one of those whose ships insurance brokers...
Página 1 - ... a large number are so overloaded that it is nearly impossible for them also to reach their destination if the voyage is at all rough.
Página 86 - He was engaged as second engineer at 4?. IQS. and board. " After his ship was loaded ' he was a changed man,' he ' got his tea without saying a word,' and then ' sat looking into the fire in a deep study like.' I asked him what ailed him, and he said, more to himself than me, ' She's such a beast !' I thought he meant the men's place was dirty, as he had complained before that there was nowhere for the men to wash. He liked to be clean, my husband, and always had a good wash when he came home from...
Página 7 - Nor would you be alone in thinking something like this, for a gentleman high in office and in influence at the Board of Trade is reported, in the Journal of the Society of Arts, to have said in one of their meetings, " Let ships be lost, and let cargoes be lost, so long as underwriters are too sordid or too lazy to refuse payment of doubtful and fraudulent cases.
Página 85 - S n, on which he served, was a very needy man, who had insured her for nearly £3,000 more than she had cost him ; so, if she sank, he would gain all this. Well, one voyage she was loaded under the owner's personal superintendence ; she was loaded so deeply that the dock master pointed her out to a friend as she left the dock, and said emphatically, " That ship will never reach her destination.
Página 54 - Oh, Mr. Plimsoll, you should have been here yesterday ; a vessel went down the river so deeply loaded, that everybody who saw her expects to hear of her being lost. She was loaded under the personal directions of her owner, and the captain himself said to me, ' Isn't it shameful, sir, to send men with families to sea in a vessel loaded like that?