 | Naval art and science - 1836 - 872 pages
...the nation, and its cost paid for by the British public, on whom its loss must ultimately fall. 1 0. That the annual loss of life, occasioned by the wreck...thousand persons in each year, which loss is also attended with increased pecuniary burdens to the British public, on whom the support of many of the... | |
 | British and foreign sailors' society - 1836 - 446 pages
...property, though covered by insurance to certain parties, is not the less absolutely lost to the nation, and its cost paid for by the British public, on whom...thousand persons in each year, which loss is also attended with increased pecuniary burdens to the British public, on whom the support of many of the... | |
 | Edward Pelham Brenton - Great Britain - 1837 - 778 pages
...property, though covered by insurance to certain parties, is not the less absolutely lost to the nation, and its cost paid for by the British public, on whom...same grounds, be fairly estimated at not less than 1,000 persons in each year, which loss is also attended with increased pecuniary burdens to the British... | |
 | 1840 - 582 pages
...property, though covered by insurance to certain parties, is not the less absolutely lost to the nation, and its cost paid for by the British public, on whom...same grounds, be fairly estimated at not less than 1,000 persons in each year, which loss is also attended with increased pecuniary burthens to the British... | |
 | Henry Mayhew - 1861 - 520 pages
...or foundered at sea may be assumed as amounting to nearly three million pounds sterling per annum. The annual loss of life occasioned by the wreck or foundering of British vessels may be fairly estimated at not less than one thousand souls in each year; so that it would appear,... | |
 | Henry Mayhew - Charities - 1864 - 480 pages
...foundered at sea may be assumed as .•»mounting to nearly three million pounds sterling per annum. The annual loss of life occasioned by the wreck or foundering of Bntish vessels mny he fairly estimated at not less than one thousand souls in each year ; so that it... | |
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That the annual loss of life, occasioned by the wreck or foundering of British vessels at sea, may, on the same grounds, be fairly estimated at not less than one thousand persons in each year, which loss is also attended with increased pecuniary burdens... 