This unique book charts the regulation of British ships throughout the nineteenth century, from no regulation in 1800, to enactment in the 1890s, of a model of customary and national maritime law adopted by many States.
Captain John N.K. Mansell, PhD, is a Chartered Master Mariner and Fellow of the Nautical Institute of London; former General Manager, Maritime Operations with Maritime New Zealand; and an independent maritime regulatory advisor to New Zealand and South Pacific Governments and the private sector.