'We Are Making No Sailors': Apprenticeship and the British Mercantile Marine, 1840-1914
(2024)
Journal Article
Wilcox, M. (2024). 'We Are Making No Sailors': Apprenticeship and the British Mercantile Marine, 1840-1914. Mariner's Mirror, 110(2), 190-209. https://doi.org/10.1080/00253359.2024.2331916
Apprenticeship was central to the recruitment and training of British seafarers for more than a century and a half, but has received little scholarly attention, and virtually none relating to the period after the abolition of compulsory apprenticeshi... Read More about 'We Are Making No Sailors': Apprenticeship and the British Mercantile Marine, 1840-1914.