Rasor Bibliography

View entry no. 254

Full entry text:

Alderman, Geoffrey. "Samuel Plimsoll and the Shipping Interest." Maritime History, 1 (April 1971): 73-95. Problem of "crimps," process whereby British owners exploited merchant seamen.

Categories:

19th C. (1800-1899); condition; merchant marine; personality; seaman; shipbuilding;

Keywords:

19th century, nineteenth, condition, life below deck, lower deck, atmosphere, enlisted life , merchant marine, seaman, lower deck, enlisted status, seafarer, sailor , shipbuilding, shipbuilder, shipbuilders, personality, prominent leader, noted person