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Lloyds of London kept records of ships and shipowners.
In these records we also find information about , port , ship , size ,captain .
And of course is there a Vlieland involved.
These are the originals to be find on google books. .
Also an original explanation is given. about the meaning of the colums
Can you find out the age of the vessel ,what kind of wood was used and how may decks there were ?
It is all there.
1803
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1812
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1813
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explanation
The Society for conducting the publication of the New Register Book of Shipping think it necessary to give a general Explanation of their plan as well as to state the motive which induce them to undertake a work of so much importance.
It is well known that a work 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 Under writers 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, built, quality and condition of vessels, and their materials,marked according to the opinion of skilful and diligent Surveyors,( employed by the society in alt the principal port in the kingdom )
had become a book of authority, and in a great degree governed the Merchant, the Ship Owner, and Under-writer, 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 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 .
Instead of classing the Ships, which they gave an account of, according to their actual state and condition, ascertained by a careful surveyor a new system was adopted of stamping the character of the 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 beeing obviating the necessity of surveying the hulls of vessels ,lessening the inducement to build ships upon principles of strength and durability ,and taking away the encouragement to keep them in the best state of repair that they might maintain their characterin the Register Book alluded to.
It is scarcely necessary to say more on the subject than merely to give the Rules of this new plan which they have adopted
and which are as follow
The letter M means the first class
G the second class and
L the third class The figures denote the number of years the vessels built at the ports against which they are placed are to be continued in each
Prize ships, whose ages are not ascertained to have ,no characters given them
No general reason 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 Quebec stand in the first class two years longer than vessels built at Hull or the Northern ports of this kingdom Wales ,&c ?
and professional men are equally ata lose to conjecture why the Committee have thought proper to class the shipping of some ports in these kingdoms in degrees so much inferior to those of others not to say any thing respecting the relative situations in which ships in foreign ports are placed
On the first appearance of this new system ,meetings were held by a numerous body of ship owners of this city,who came to resolutions, expressing in the strongest manner ,their disapprobation of the conduct of the committee of the Society and amongst ether resolutions declared their opinion that it was ´´founded in error `` and calculated to mislead the judgment of merchants and underwriters, and if continued ,would not only prove of the most injurious consequences to individual ship owners, merchants and underwriters but to every branch of trade, connected with repairing and refitting vessels, and, in a great measure tend to destroy the shipping of the country .
Meetings were held, and similar resolutions formed, in the principal out ports of the kingdom
The ship owners of London appointed a Committee to represent to the authors of this new plan the injurious tendency of their system ,
but the Committee thought proper even to refuse them an interview .
Under these circumstances the shipowners had no remedy but to raise subscriptions and make the necessary arrangements for publishing a book founded upon principles so long established and so universally approved, and to carry the same into execution, they have appointed surveyors with adequate salaries in every port of the kingdom ,and they now beg leave to submit the result of their labours to the Candour of those interested in commerce, in shipping and in the business of underwriting ,and far from wishing to make any mystery or secret ,of their mode of classing ships they, beg, leave to state the Rules they have adopted which are as follows
RULES
ADOPTED BY THE COMMITTEE
0F THE NEW REGISTER OF SHIPPING
First Class marked A India built Ships if built with Teek well seasoned squared and well fastened Twelve Years
River built Ships if built entirely of British Oak well seasoned squared and well fastened Twelve Years Country built Ships if built as above Ten Years Bermudian and American built Ships of the Southern Colonies of Live Oak and Pitch Pine or Cedar4 or White Oak if well built and fastened as above Ten Years French built Ships if built and fastened as above Ten Years
Spanish Portuguese Mediterranean Dutch and all Ships of the Northern Nations of Oak Eight Years
British built Ships if built with a mixture of inferior Foreign Timber Eight Year
Quebec and all the Northern States of America of Oak Eight Years
Newfoundland if built with Juniper and Spruce Seven Years
Nova Scotia &c if built with Juniper and Spruce SevenYears
Nova Scotia or Newfoundland if built with Black Birch and Fir Four Years
Second Class marked E
All ships kept in perfect repair that appear on survey to have nо defect and are completely calculated to carry a dry cargo with safety
Third Class marked I
Ships which from appearance of defect or want of thorough and substantial repair shall not appear upon survey perfectly safe to carry dry goods though such vessels are deemed sea worthy as far as regards the carrying goods not liable to sea damage
Fourth Class marked O
Vessels out of repair and not deemed safe and sea worthy for a foreign voyage I 2 Ships Materials If well found marked 1 If indifferently found marked 2 After the letter of the ship's character
After thus avowing the principles upon which they have proceeded in the execution of this work and the motives which compelled them to undertake it they hope those for whose information it is designed will make due allowances for the defects that might appear on its first publication as it must
De obvious that the collecting materials for such a work is attended with no inconsiderable degree of labour and that in spite of the utmost attention there will be many omissions The Committee have used their utmost endeavours to collect the names of as many ships as possible from the registers at the different ports and where they have not had an opportunity of surveying them on account of their absence ,
have inserted their names, burthen, built &c ,by which description alone the merchant ship owner and underwriter will at least have ai much information as is given in the Register Book, complained of
It will be seen that considering the short time the Society has been established a very considerable number has been surveyed and those ships which are not yet will be soon inspected and marked as they arrive in port
At the same time they request that those whose vessels happen to have escaped the notice of the surveyors, will send information to the office or in case any error should appear in the survey it is requested that those interested will represent the same to the Committee when a new survey will be immediately ordered and in the event of a difference in opinion auch measures will be adopted by them, as are most consistent with impartiality to the individual and justice to the public
They flatter themselves this book will be in constant state of improvement being truly sensible of its great importance and no exertions on their part shall be wanting to make it as perfect as possible
Subscribers to this Book are requested to take notice that they are required to return their Book at the end of the year and those who mean to withdraw their names for the ensuing year will please to send notice in writing to the Secretary on or before the first day of November and those Gentlemen who do not give such notice will be considered as Subscribers and have a book prepared for them accordingly
April 2 1799
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