... Europeans made an appearance in the empire in a variety of guises—as cartographers, scientists, technical experts, clergymen, merchants, sailors, and, perhaps most notably, in numerical terms at least, as settlers and soldiers. Some attempt is made to assess the significance of their contributions, and even...

... in the period from 1942 to 1946 within which the repeal decisions took place: the end of extraterritoriality, the revision of shore leave provisions for Chinese sailors, and the reconsideration of Asian exclusion as a broader topic. It argues that repeal of the Chinese exclusion laws was linked to all the other...

...Figure 8.3 The tower of the Sailors' Home c. 1960. The time-ball itself has already been removed. The left-hand image is from the cobbled James Watt Street with the Broomielaw running across the picture towards the top; the right-hand image shows the busy Broomielaw, with the dome of the Clyde...

... then recounts a visit to the sailors' Reading Room, which was opened 150 years ago. On the walls inside the Reading Room were pictures of men of the sea. There were beach yawls, gaff-rigged and clinker-built, oyster trawls, and well smacks. Moreover, there were models of naval vessels with tall sails and later...

...This chapter explores the journey of black seamen to England. The seamen of the African Diaspora experienced risks at sea beyond those of weather conditions and enemy. Free black sailors faced as much danger of being sold into slavery as the unfortunate children of African kings. The practice...

...This chapter talks about the Black Loyalists. The increase in the employment of black sailors meant that those surviving the validities of the voyage would often set down in Britain's ports. Black mariners residing in England after 1772 gained from the case of James Somerset who was a fugitive...

...This chapter looks at the lives of the black sailors during the Second World War. During the war, press reports favoured black seamen. Examples of personal bravery exhibited by individual black seamen are then reviewed. It is shown that the black community in Liverpool suffered in the Second World...

...: the manner and the terms by which members of the American maritime community used print to craft for themselves a highly public role in national land and how sailors, as narrators, became important linkages between the United States and the wider world. Their frequent and widely circulated commentary...

... malaria Port Royal supernumeraries Victualling Antigua Barbados English Harbour impressment of seamen Boston Lowestotte Plymouth ships sailors seamen sickness Caribbean deserters desertion British navy recruitment The greatest difficulty faced by a commander-in-chief in the West Indies...

...The first of two chapters considering seventeenth-century sailors’ diaries takes up the story of Jeremy Roch, an officer in the Royal Navy. His combination of seamanship, bravery, egotism, and poetic bravado represents the role of metis--skill or craft, especially in a maritime sense--in surviving...

... looks at the often fraught relations on board captured prize vessels en route to Admiralty courts, and officers’ attitudes toward and treatment of enslaved Africans in their care. health Hotham Commodore Charles morality prizes and prize money sailors Leonard Peter Sierra Leone Africans Binstead...

... interpretation of naval surgeons’ logs, John Rankin’s chapter investigates medical practices in the West African Squadron. His research explores the provision of medical care in naval ships; attitudes of surgeons toward white and black sailors and slaves/liberated Africans; medical and other responses...

... to the wider fortunes of the black population in Liverpool in 1919. There was enmity between black British and white foreign sailors in Cardiff. The violent row between white American service personnel and black British colonial sailors was not an isolated incident in south Wales. Soldiers and former troops...

... of unemployed black and Arab sailors around the ports in Britain. By the end of the inter-war period, there had been an improvement in the employment situation of black and Arab sailors. In general, the riots of 1919 did not bring an end to the violence targeted at black and Arab sailors around Britain's ports...

...This book investigates the role of indigenous seafarers and related maritime traders in the history of the Pacific Islands. It charts the continuity of seafaring from the ancient ancestors of the navigator Tupaia to the modern Pacific sailor. This introduction puts in perspective the various cross...

...This chapter examines the complexity of the modern international employment of Pacific seafarers in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries by focusing on foreign ships on which they served. It first considers the various reasons for shortages of European sailors and goes on to discuss the process...

...This chapter examines the dangers and hardships experienced by Pacific sailors at sea, including death and unfair and harsh treatment by the captains of foreign ships, and the laws that were introduced ostensibly to protect them. It begins by citing statistics on the mortality rates of Pacific...

...This chapter elaborates the different aspects of the sailor's revenge in Britain. On 1 July 1749, three sailors from the Graftonman-of-war visited a brothel, the Crown tavern near St. Mary le Strand. They complained to the landlord that they had been robbed by the women. When the sailors demanded...

... onto the reef. The sailors commenced to dig laboriously a sand canal on the island, a trench into which the work scow could be hauled and safely secured. Commerce raiders Chinese trade threat to Midway channel cutting of 1870 chart of channel partial Alabama CSS commerce raider Thomas Hogg...

...This chapter deals with the antagonistic relationship between American missionaries and American sailors, in which Hawaiians were caught in the middle. It shows how that conflict literally played out on theatrical and musical stages in Hawaii and on the mainland. It frames this struggle using...