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

PREFACE

The following sketches were contributed to the LiverpoolPress (Liverpool Daily Post, Liverpool Courier, Journal ofCommerce), and they are now published at the request of manyfriends. Advantage has been taken of the opportunity forrevision, and to add further reminiscences.

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

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

Bromborough Hall, Cheshire,
August, 1920.

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