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Our company is fully licensed and accredited by the Ministry of Social Policy and Labor as well as by the Bureau Veritas. All our personnel are high- qualified, well trained and meet the requirements and standards of maritime employment. The World of Seamen Group LLC has been operating on the maritime personnel recruitment market since 2011. Our agency is the official agent of the MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company S.A., Geneva and the MS SECURITY LTD in Ukraine.
- Deep: People of Mixed Race
The 1925 Special Restrictions (Coloured Alien Seamen) Order was a racially exclusionary order that initially applied to Welsh port cities in Barry, Penarth, Port Talbot, Newport, Swansea and Cardiff, and in northern England in Liverpool, Salford, Newcastle, South Shields, Hull, and Middlesbrough before being universally implemented across Britain in 1926.
- Home Office Surveillance of Mixed Families and their Children in Manchester
Including books, newspapers, maps, sound recordings, photographs, patents and stamps. This blog is part of our Untold Lives series, sharing stories of people’s lives from our collections. Stories from around the world, from the dawn of history to the present day, are told through the written word, images, audio-visual and digital materials. The India and Colonial Office were not supportive and the order also led to protests. For example, as is evident from the Durrant Press Cutting from 13 May 1927, the forced registration and threat of deportation led to a mass demonstration on May Day in Cleveland Square, Liverpool, where many Indian seafarers resided.
(2)The master shall also, upon the discharge of every certificated officer whose certificate of competency has been delivered to and retained by him, return the certificate to the officer, and if without reasonable cause he fails so to do he shall for each offence be liable to a fine not exceeding twenty pounds. (1)When a seaman serving in a British foreign-going ship, whether registered within or without the United Kingdom, is on the termination of his engagement discharged in the United Kingdom, he shall, whether the agreement with the crew be an agreement for the voyage or a running agreement, be discharged in manner provided by this Act in the presence of a superintendent. In part, the Order was driven by the lobbying of the National Sailors and Fireman’s Union, endorsed by the Board of Trade, to restrict access for foreign sailors to the maritime labour market, which government officials took up.
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The Mixed Museum was founded in 2012 as a means to share more widely and permanently the findings of small British Academy-funded research project undertaken in 2007 by Drs Chamion Caballero and Peter Aspinall into official accounts and first-hand experiences of racial mixing in 20th century Britain. He also could fully corroborate the statement which had been made by the hon. Member for Tynemouth, inasmuch as he had himself held an interview a short time since, with a large body of seamen, from whom he distinctly understood that, however great they felt the evils of impressment, they would, even under it, ever be ready to enter into a temporary period of service under the Crown. He thought the system, however, ought to be abolished, and he therefore fully participated in the satisfaction so generally expressed upon the introduction of measures, which would have the effect of relieving the service from so prejudicial a course of proceeding. Its aim was to prevent and regulate the numbers of overseas mercantile mariners and bar them from settling in Britain.
Seamen learn sailing terminology, seamanship, both helming and crewing, rigging, docking, basic right of way rules, knots, the fundamentals of navigation and on-water safety. AftercareWe are all serious book people and we understand the value of reading. This is why we package our books so carefully and employ a helpful in-house customer services team to promptly resolve any queries you may have. Reported in the December 1953 issue, the Union was successful in negotiating a 30s [shilling] wage increase per month for all adult ratings in the Merchant Navy with a corresponding increase for boys, petty officers and higher ranking officers. There is a spread of two pages that details out the ‘New Rates of Pay for Seamen’.
It required them to provide proof of their British nationality as citizens of empire. Such proof was often difficult for sailors to obtain as they did not have passports and any discharge certificates were, in contrast to white mariners, deemed not acceptable proof of nationality, stripping a large number of people of colour of their British citizenship. The Whole Act without Schedules you have selected contains over 200 provisions and might take some time to download. You may also experience some issues with your browser, such as an alert box that a script is taking a long time to run.
Our Chaplains provide pastoral support and welfare services both onshore at the seafarers’ centres and aboard the ships. Seamen learn the basics of sailing and spend most of their time in Optimist dinghies. After an initial instruction period, they sail around the inner bay by themselves Seamen or with a friend in an Optimist or with an instructor in a Fast Cat.
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The findings inspired and formed the foundation of the critically acclaimed BBC2 series Mixed Britannia (2011) and are further explored in the book Mixed Race Britain in The Twentieth Century (2018) published by Palgrave Macmillan. If you have any concerns, issues or questions don’t hesitate to contact us and our team will be more than happy to assist you. For more information on delivery/overseas orders please refer to our Delivery Information. Footnotes blogSome books spark ideas and conversations that our catalogue can’t contain – our Footnotes blog offers a deeper dive into a wealth of topics to inspire further reading. Condition and priceAll our books are new, unused and unread, and they’re all up to 75% off RRP.