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Scenes from sea and city : Lloyd's List 1734-1984 / Alan Cameron and Roy Farndon.

By: Cameron, Alan [author.].
Contributor(s): Farndon, Roy [author.].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Colchester : Lloyd's List, 1984Copyright date: ©1984Description: 288 pages : illustrations (some color), photographs ; 34 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeSubject(s): Shipping -- History -- 18th century | Shipping -- History -- 19th century | Shipping -- History -- 20th centuryDDC classification: 387.50903
Contents:
Lloyd's list from Coffee House to the computer -- Pirates, privateers and men of work -- Age of sail and the coming of iron and steam -- Exploration and trade -- Colliers and grain ships: growth of dry bulk trades -- Development of cargo handling and stowage -- The toll of the sea -- Regulation of shipping from Shipwreck Committee to IMO -- Taking the risk: growth of the London Insurance Market -- From Lillie Langtry to dry docks - advertising in Lloyd's List -- Compass to ARPA: navigation down the years -- Great waterways and ports -- Cargo shipping and specialised vessels - east Indiaman to containership -- Development of the liner system and shipping conferences -- Passenger vessels: from emigrants and atlantic liners to cruise ships -- Energy and the sea -- 250 years of shipbuilding from Thames to Far East -- Marine propulsion - from steam to diesel and nuclear power -- Fitting out the ships -- Facing the risk: towage and salvage -- Tempering the risk:classing the ships -- The broker and the banker: serving the service industries -- From signal station to satellite - 250 years of communications -- The National Maritime Museum and Lloyd's List -- The world and its market - Lloyd's list in 1984.
List(s) this item appears in: Dr. Raymond Fielding Collection

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Lloyd's list from Coffee House to the computer -- Pirates, privateers and men of work -- Age of sail and the coming of iron and steam -- Exploration and trade -- Colliers and grain ships: growth of dry bulk trades -- Development of cargo handling and stowage -- The toll of the sea -- Regulation of shipping from Shipwreck Committee to IMO -- Taking the risk: growth of the London Insurance Market -- From Lillie Langtry to dry docks - advertising in Lloyd's List -- Compass to ARPA: navigation down the years -- Great waterways and ports -- Cargo shipping and specialised vessels - east Indiaman to containership -- Development of the liner system and shipping conferences -- Passenger vessels: from emigrants and atlantic liners to cruise ships -- Energy and the sea -- 250 years of shipbuilding from Thames to Far East -- Marine propulsion - from steam to diesel and nuclear power -- Fitting out the ships -- Facing the risk: towage and salvage -- Tempering the risk:classing the ships -- The broker and the banker: serving the service industries -- From signal station to satellite - 250 years of communications -- The National Maritime Museum and Lloyd's List -- The world and its market - Lloyd's list in 1984.

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