The humanitarian, technical and political response to shipwreck in the first half of the nineteenth century : the 1836 inquiry and its aftermath
Shipwreck in the first half of the nineteenth century had been an on-going national tragedy. It was not officially quantified until the 185O's when it was found that 1025 ships a year on average were lost, the consequent destruction of life averaged 830 persons a year, with an annual loss to th...
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University of Southampton
1999
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| Online Access: | https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.301038 |