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Title: Reminiscences of a Liverpool Shipowner, 1850-1920

Author: Sir William Bower Forwood

Release Date: March 17, 2014 [eBook #45157]

Language: English

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The Port of Liverpool—1873
From the Picture by S. Walters

PREFACE

The following sketches were contributed to the Liverpool Press (Liverpool Daily Post, Liverpool Courier, Journal of Commerce), and they are now published at the request of many friends. Advantage has been taken of the opportunity for revision, and to add further reminiscences.

A chapter has also been added descriptive of the part played by the British merchant seaman in the war; and another, published in 1917, portraying the attitude and work of the British shipowner during the war.

To do adequate justice to the history of our shipping during the past sixty years would occupy several volumes. In the following pages all that has been attempted has been to outline the principal events in the fewest possible words, in the hope that they may serve for future reference; and also keep alive that interest in our mercantile fleet which is so essential to the prosperity of our Country and the welfare of our people.

Bromborough Hall, Cheshire,
August, 1920.

CONTENTS

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS