‘We Are Making No Sailors’: Apprenticeship and the British mercantile marine 1840–1914

Figures & data

Table 1. Number of Registered Apprenticeships, 1840–1901 (five-year-averages

Source Return of the Number of Apprentices Registered from 1835 to 1860 (BPP, 1861, LVII); Committee of the Board of Trade to Inquire into Certain Questions affecting the Mercantile Marine (BPP, 1903, LXII), Appendix A9.

Note: fishing apprentices registered under Merchant Shipping Act until 1884

Table 2. Ports recruiting greatest number of apprentices in 1875, compared to 1885 and 1890

Source TNA, BT 150/13–4, 41–50. Board of Trade Registers of Apprentices