The Industrial Revolution

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Identifikator:: 1027928145

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-159926

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Cunningham, William http://d-nb.info/gnd/128907487

Title:: The Industrial Revolution

Place of publication:: Cambridge

Publisher:: The University Press

Year of publication:: 1922

Scope:: xxii S., S. 404-886

Digitisation:: 2021

Collection:: Economics Books

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SHIPBUILDING, NAVAL STORES AND SEAMANSHIP 485 encouraging the art was systematically pursued, with the AD: 1689 view of securing a fleet of “defensible ships” which were ’ zapable of carrying guns’. The resources of the plantations in America seemed to open up a boundless field, from which masts, and spars, and naval stores might be obtained, both for the King’s ships and the mercantile marine ; persistent, though not very successful, efforts were made to procure such products from the colonies. Attention had been called to li this source of supply by various writers, all through the were seventeenth century?; and attempts had been made to form ona] companies both in New Hampshire and Pennsylvania, which feng rid might meet the requirements of the mother country. In stores 1696, the newly established Board of Trade and Plantations sent out commissioners to report on the opportunities of the plantations for the growth of hemp, the manufacture of tar, and the supply of masts and spars®; they also encouraged Colonel Hunter, the Governor of New York, in his scheme for getting over the difficulty due to the scarcity of labour by importing a number of Palatines in 1710¢ In the mean- time, however, the interruption of the Baltic trade, and the practical monopoly secured by the Tar Company of Sweden®, roused the attention of Parliament, and in 1704 an Act was passed?, the preamble of which is an admirable statement of the current opinion on the subject. “Whereas the royal navy, and the navigation of England, wherein, under God, the wealth, safety and strength of this kingdom is so much concerned, depends on the due supply of stores necessary for the same, which being now brought in mostly frol foreign parts, in foreign shipping, at exorbitant and arbitrary rates, to the great prejudice and discouragement of the trade and navigation of this kingdom, may be provided in a more certain and beneficial manner from her Majesty’s own do- minions: and whereas her Majesty's colonies and plantations 1 5 and 6 W. and M. c. 24. On the competition between American and English ship-building, see p. 479 above and p. 832 below. ? Lord, op. cit. 2. 8 Lord, op. cit. 9. * Lord, op. cit. p. 43. On the Palatines, see Cunningham, Alien Immigrants, 249. 5 Supplies were also obtained from Russia (1721), but the conditions of trade were equally unsatisfactory. Parl. Hist. vi. 928. 6 8 and 4 Anne, ¢. 10. See also 8 Anne. c. 13, § 30: 9 Anne, ¢. 17; 12 Anne, Stat. 1. co. 9.

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