The only legislation affecting the civil jurisdiction of the High Court of Admiralty till the time of Queen Victoria is to be found in an act of 1540, enabling the admiral or his lieutenant to decide on certain complaints of freighters against shipmasters for delay in sailing, and one of 1562, giving the lord high admiral of England, the lord warden of the Cinque Ports, their lieutenants and judges, co-ordinate power with other judges to enforce forfeitures under that act - a very curious and miscellaneous statute called "An Act for the Maintenance of the Navy." [Please select]
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Hutchinson's "The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore" (1913) has shown clearly that the baleful effects of the British practice were not felt solely by American shipmasters. [Please select]
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Such merchandise had been bought or bartered for by shipmasters who were much more than mere navigators. [Please select]
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Church was energetic in spreading the intelligence, which fortunately reached some American shipmasters in time to save them. [Please select]
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"They are descendants of a few left by shipmasters decades ago," said Le Brunnec. [Please select]
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Besides, the care of a man in his condition would be a greater responsibility than most shipmasters would care to undertake. [Please select]
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It is a legacy of that far-off catastrophe which beggared many a household and filled the streets with haggard, broken shipmasters. [Please select]
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Forty-five of them became shipmasters, twenty of them chief mates, and six second mates. [Please select]
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These were American shipmasters of the old breed, raised in schooners as a rule, and adapting themselves to modern conditions. [Please select]
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This is one of the fascinating autobiographies of the old school of shipmasters who had the gift of writing. [Please select]
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Very good; let Palos contribute the use and maintenance of two ships for two months, and let the magistrates of the Andalusian ports hunt up shipmasters and crews and supplies. [Please select]
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