The shipmasters' guide1853 - Shipping |
Other editions - View all
The Shipmaster's Guide: Containing the Mercantile Marine Act, Merchant ... John Hoskins Brown No preview available - 2008 |
Common terms and phrases
14 Vict abroad advance note aforesaid agreement appren Board of Trade British cancelled Certificates of Competency collector or comptroller colony Comptroller of Customs consent Consul copy court crew delivered deposited desertion discharge documents duly duty enacted engaged entitled entry expences foreign Foreign-going ship forfeitures functionary hard labour Home-trade ship Ibid imprisonment inden indentures justice liable Lord High Admiral Majesty Majesty's dominions marine board master or mate master or owner ment Mercantile Marine Act Merchant Seamen's Act merchant ships naval Navy neglect obtained offence officer of customs official log-book paid parties payment ping Master proceeding procuring provisions purpose refuse register ticket registrar of seamen regulations repealed respect Royal Navy sanction Saturday Sunday Monday seaman or apprentice Seamen in London Seamen's Hospital Society ship's Shipping Master Shipping Offices shipping-master shipping-office thereof tion transmit twenty pounds United Kingdom voyage wages
Popular passages
Page 140 - States shall be deemed to be the "master" thereof; and every person (apprentices excepted) who shall be employed or engaged to serve in any capacity on board the same shall be deemed and taken to be a "seaman...
Page 136 - And be it enacted. That no Goods or Passengers shall be carried Coastwise from one Part of the United Kingdom to another, or from the United Kingdom to the Isle of Man, or from the Isle of Man to the United Kingdom, except in British Ships.
Page 56 - If any seaman on or before being engaged wilfully and fraudulently makes a false statement of the name of his last ship or last alleged ship...
Page 146 - And be it enacted, that the justice before whom conviction. any person shall be convicted of any offence against this act, may cause the conviction to be drawn up in the following form of words, or in any other form of words to the same effect, as the case shall require ; videlicet, "Be it remembered, that on the day of in the year of our Lord at in the county of [or riding, division, liberty, city...
Page 145 - ... justice, either be committed to the common gaol or house of correction, there to be imprisoned only, or to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour, for any term not exceeding six...
Page 207 - ... collision, he shall put the helm of his vessel to port, so as to pass on the port side of the other vessel...
Page 57 - Court abroad for wages, unless he is discharged with such sanction as herein required, and with the written consent of the master, or proves such ill-usage on the part of the master or by his authority as to warrant reasonable apprehension of danger to the life of such seaman if he were to remain on board...
Page 146 - Sums shall be sooner paid ; [or, and we order that the said Sums shall be paid by the said AO on or before the Day of ], and...
Page 115 - On or before the first day of February and the first day of August...
Page 170 - Court may, if the master or the owner or his agent so requires instead of committing the offender to prison, cause him to be conveyed on board for the purpose of proceeding on the voyage, or deliver him to the master or any mate of the ship, or the owner or his agent, to be by them so conveyed, and may in such case order any costs and expenses properly incurred by or on behalf of the master or owner by reason of the offence to be paid by the offender, and if necessary to be deducted from any wages...