Report and Special Report from the Select Committee on the Merchant Shipping (Tonnage Deduction for Propelling Power) Bill

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1907, sessional number 256, xviii and 388 pp. Order of Reference, Report, Special Report, Proceedings of the Committee, List of Witnesses, Minutes of Evidence, 12 Appendices and Index. Committee appointed May 1907. The Chairman was H. J. Tennant. Evidence given by 23 witnesses including Captain Alex Campbell, Managing Director of Messrs P. and A. Campbell of Bristol, Captain Alfred John George Chalmers, a member of Marine Department of Board of Trade, Sir James Fortesque Flannery, head of firm of Flannery, Baggalay and Johnson of London, Past-President of the Institute of Marine Engineers and formerly technical advisor to the Marine Department of the Board of Trade, Albert Edward Seaton, naval architect, and David Lloyd-George, President of the Board of Trade. Chief subjects, places, firms, etc., investigated and reported upon include Barry Dock, bunkers, crew space, deductions for register tonnage, docks, dock dues, evasive construction, load line, passenger steamers, passenger steamship companies, Penarth Dock, pilots, pilotage, ratio of net to gross tonnage, register tonnage and carrying capacity, water ballast, etc. Folio. Good condition. Rebound in blue cloth boards with gold titling.

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• Title: Report and Special Report from the Select Committee on the Merchant Shipping (Tonnage Deduction for Propelling Power) Bill