New Register Book of ShippingGregg Pres limited, 1813 - Marine insurance |
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Page 10 - Meetings were held, and similar resolutions formed, in the principal outports of the kingdom. The shipowners of London appointed a committee to represent to the authors of this new plan the injurious tendency of their system ; but that committee thought proper even to refuse them an interview.
Page 7 - In the preceding year [1798], the Committee of the Society, without consulting the Subscribers at large, made an entire change in this system, so long established and so universally approved, and substituted in its place a plan founded on a principle diametrically opposite and perfectly erroneous.
Page 7 - ... originally constructed, the wear or damage she might have sustained, or the repairs she might from time to time have received, or even being rebuilt ; thereby at once obviating the necessity of surveying th...
Page 7 - ... ship wholly by her age, and the place in which she was built, without any regard to the manner in which she was originally constructed, the wear or damage she might have sustained, or the repairs she might from time to time have received, or even being rebuilt : thereby at once obviating the necessity...
Page 1 - U, restored in the place of their iiewly-adopted marks, M, G, L, Z. It will be found however, on inspection, that the new plan is still adhered to, namely, that of giving characters to ships according to their ages, and the places where built, without л due regard to the manner in which they were originally built, the repairs they have received, and their actual state and condition.
Page 7 - It is well known that a Book has, for a long series of years, been annually printed under the direction of a Committee of a Society, formed of Subscribers, for the information of Underwriters ; which Book, after a variety of alterations, was at length arranged in a manner that gave general satisfaction ; and, having continued above twenty-four years to be the record of the age, burthen, build, quality, and condition of vessels and their materials, marked according to the opinion of skilful and diligent...
Page 9 - Prize-ships, whose age» are not ascertained, to have no character» giren them. No general reasons have been assigned for the new plan : and as to the distinction of places, imagination is left to its free scope to ascertain what causes make some situations so inferior to others: for instance, why should ships built at...
Page 7 - ... vessels and their materials, marked according to the opinion of skilful and diligent surveyors, employed by the society in all the principal ports of the kingdom, had become a book of authority, and in a great degree governed the merchant, the shipowner, and underwriter, in their opinions of the quality of ships for the purpose of freighting goods, or insuring, and consequently, in a great measure, regulated their value. In the preceding year, the committee of the society, without consulting...
Page 7 - ¡is to state the motives which induce them to undertake a Work 'of so much importance. It is well known that -a Book has, for a long series of years, been annually printed, under the direction of a Committee of a Society, formed of subscribers, for the information of Underwriters ; which Book, after a variety of alterations, was at length arranged in a manner that gave general satisfaction ; and having continued...