Shipping and Shipbroking: A Guide to All Branches of Shipbroking and Ship ManagementSir J. Pitman & sons, Limited, 1924 - 519 pages |
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... Freeboard - Tonnage- Board of Trade - Cubical Measurement - Lifeboats - Food - Per- sonnel - Classification - Special Surveys - Surveyors . MODERN vessels are almost invariably constructed of steel . For special trades wood is used ...
... Freeboard - Tonnage- Board of Trade - Cubical Measurement - Lifeboats - Food - Per- sonnel - Classification - Special Surveys - Surveyors . MODERN vessels are almost invariably constructed of steel . For special trades wood is used ...
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... Board of Trade , which gave a limit to which a ship may be loaded . The mark indicating this limit , or loadline , is still commonly known as the " Plimsoll " mark . The position of this mark is assigned by the Board of Trade , but the ...
... Board of Trade , which gave a limit to which a ship may be loaded . The mark indicating this limit , or loadline , is still commonly known as the " Plimsoll " mark . The position of this mark is assigned by the Board of Trade , but the ...
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... Freeboard . The freeboard of a vessel is simply the height of the side of a vessel measured at midships , from the top of the weather deck to the waterline , and there are important rules laid down by the Board of Trade regarding the ...
... Freeboard . The freeboard of a vessel is simply the height of the side of a vessel measured at midships , from the top of the weather deck to the waterline , and there are important rules laid down by the Board of Trade regarding the ...
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... Board of Trade . The Marine Department of the Board of Trade controls the measurement of tonnage , which is divided into three measures , viz . : Gross tonnage ; net tonnage ; underdeck tonnage . Gross tonnage is approximately the full ...
... Board of Trade . The Marine Department of the Board of Trade controls the measurement of tonnage , which is divided into three measures , viz . : Gross tonnage ; net tonnage ; underdeck tonnage . Gross tonnage is approximately the full ...
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... Board of Trade requires that- Every British foreign - going ship , and every British home - trade passenger ship , when going to sea from any place in the United Kingdom , must be provided with officers duly certificated according to ...
... Board of Trade requires that- Every British foreign - going ship , and every British home - trade passenger ship , when going to sea from any place in the United Kingdom , must be provided with officers duly certificated according to ...
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affreightment agent agreed amount and/or apply Arbitration arrival assured average bags Baltcon Barratry berth bill of lading Board of Trade boilers British ship broker bunkers cancelling cargo carried cent certificate of registry Chamber of Shipping charges charter party clause cloth gilt coal commence Consignees contract cost court crew custom damage deadweight deck declaration delivered delivery demurrage demy 8vo discharging port dunnage exceeding expenses freight grain lay-days liable lien loading and discharging loading port loadline marine insurance master Merchant Shipping Act mortgage notice officer option owner paid particular passengers payable payment perils person port of discharge port of loading port of registry ready reason receive registrar respect risk sailing salvage seaman ship's shipbroker shipowner shipper steamer stevedore stipulated stowage thereof timber tonnage tons United Kingdom unless usually vessel voyage warranty White Sea
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Page 414 - And so we the assurers are contented, and do hereby promise and bind ourselves each one for his own part, our heirs, executors, and goods to the assured, their executors, administrators, and assigns for the true performance of the premises, confessing ourselves paid the consideration due unto us for this assurance by the assured at and after the rate of IN WITNESS WHEREOF we the assurers have subscribed our names and sums assured in (London).
Page 188 - And it is further agreed that if the ship hereby insured shall come into collision with any other ship or vessel and the assured shall in consequence thereof become liable to pay and shall pay by way of damages to any other person or persons any sum or sums in respect of such collision, the underwriters will pay the assured such proportion of three-fourths of such sum or sums so paid as their respective subscriptions hereto bear to the value of the ship hereby insured...
Page 412 - The rules of the common law including the law merchant, save in so far as they are inconsistent with the express provisions of this Act, shall continue to apply to contracts of marine insurance.
Page 281 - ... the master or other person signing the same, notwithstanding that such goods or some part thereof may not have been so shipped, unless such holder of the bill of lading shall have had actual notice at the time of receiving the same that the goods had not been in fact laden on board: Provided, that the master or other person so signing may exonerate himself in respect of such misrepresentation by showing that it was caused without any default on his part, and wholly by the fraud of the shipper...
Page 414 - Com, fish, salt, fruit, flour, and seed are warranted free from average, unless general, or the ship be stranded — sugar, tobacco, hemp, flax, hides and skins are warranted free from average, under five pounds per cent, and all other goods, also the ship and freight, are warranted free from average, under three pounds per cent unless general, or the ship be stranded.
Page 410 - Where, under the same policy, a partial loss which has not been repaired or otherwise made good, is followed by a total loss, the assured can only recover in respect of the total loss: Provided that nothing in this section shall affect the liability of the insurer under the suing and labouring clause.
Page 183 - Maritime perils" means the perils consequent on, or incidental to, the navigation of the sea,. that is to say, perils of the seas, fire, war perils, pirates, rovers, thieves, captures, seizures, restraints, and detainments of princes and peoples, jettisons, barratry, and any other perils, either of the like kind or which may be designated by the policy.
Page 281 - Every bill of lading in the hands of a consignee or endorsee for valuable consideration, representing goods to have been shipped on board a vessel, shall be conclusive evidence of such shipment as against the master or other person signing the same, notwithstanding that such goods or some part thereof may not have been so shipped...
Page 260 - The carrier shall be bound, before and at the beginning of the voyage, to exercise due diligence to — a) Make the ship seaworthy...
Page 420 - Warranted free of capture, seizure, arrest, restraint, or detainment, and the consequences thereof or of any attempt thereat (piracy excepted) , and also from all consequences of hostilities or warlike operations whether before or after declaration of war.