Statutory requirements regarding surgeons on British whale-ships

Mariners Mirror

Volumn 91, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 7-12

  Evans, Martin H ^a  

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EID: 34347286851     PISSN: 00253359     EISSN: 2049680X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00253359.2005.10656927     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. Forster, Honore. 1988. ‘British Whaling Surgeons in the South Seas, 1823–1843’. MM, 74:139–56. 401–15. Eleanora C. Gordon, ‘Sailors’ physicians:Medical guides for merchant ships and whalers, 1774–1864’, Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, vol. 48 (1993)
2. Scoresby, William. 1969. An account of the Arctic Regions with a History and Description of the Northern Whale-Fishery Newton Abbot:David & Charles. (1820; repr
3. Jackson, G., 1978. The British Whaling Trade London:Black. See (and Adam Anderson, The Origin of Commerce (originally published 1764; the enlarged posthumous 1801 edition—‘An historical and chronological deduction of the Origin of Commerce from the earliest accounts, containing an history of the great commercial interests of the British Empire’—was reprinted by Kelley, New York, 1967)
4. 1672. 18 An Act of 6 May 1645 prohibited the import of whale products except in British ships, from Greenland. The ‘Navigation Act’ of 1660 (12 Cha. 2, Cap. reiterated in 13 Cha. 2, Cap. 14 Stat. 1) imposed restrictions on many imports, including whale products. They had to arrive in British-owned ships, with the master and at least three-quarters of the crew ‘English’. 12 Cha. 2, Cap. 4, Appendix (1660) and 25 Cha. 2, Cap. 7 granted import duty advantages, or exemption from part of the ‘Navigation Act’, to whale products caught by ‘English’ ships
5. 24 June 1726. 24 June, 16 10 Geo. 1, Cap. (1724, to be in force for seven years beginning 25 December 1724) with further concessions in 12 Geo. 1, Cap. 26 (with effect from
6. Elking, Henry. 1980. A View of the Greenland Trade and Whale-Fishery (1722, repr. Caedmon, Whitby
7. Anderson. 1801. Origin of Commerce See II, 139–201. Anderson had been chief clerk to the South Sea Company during this period
8. Ibid 201
9. I am indebted to Dr C. Pond of the House of Commons Library for the details regarding the dating of this Act.
10. Forster, ‘British Whaling Surgeons’, 404.
11. Greenland Trade and Whale-Fishery. Elking
12. 1782. 33 Each Act in this series was drafted to expire on a defined date. The sequence in this series is:6 Geo. 2, Cap. (1733), 13 Geo. 2, Cap. 28 (1739), 22 Geo. 2, Cap. 45 (1748), 28 Geo. 2, Cap. 20 (1755), 4 Geo. 3, Cap. 22 (1763), 8 Geo. 3, Cap. 27 (1768), 11 Geo. 3, Cap. 38 (1771), 22 Geo. 3, Cap. 19 26 Geo. 3, Cap. 41 (1786), 29 Geo. 3, Cap. 53 (1789; minor amendments), 31 Geo. 3, Cap. 43 (1791), 23 Geo. 3, Cap. 22 (1792), 38 Geo. 3, Cap. 35 (1798), 39 Geo. 3, Cap. 101 (1799), 39 & 40 Geo. 3, Cap. 45 (1800), 41 Geo. 3, Cap. 98 (1801), 42 Geo. 3, Cap. 22 (1802), 44 Geo. 3, Cap. 35 (1804), 46 Geo. 3, Cap. 29 (1806), 48 Geo. 3, Cap. 20 (1808), 50 Geo. 3, Cap. 11 (1810), 55 Geo. 3, Cap. 39 (1815), 1 Geo. 4, Cap. 12 (1820; emergency extension of Acts expiring after the death of George III), 1 Geo. 4, Cap. 33 (1820), 3 Geo. 4, Cap. 104 (1822; expired 31 December 1824 and not extended). In 1825 the Act 6 Geo. 4, Cap. 105 effected a major revision of most of the laws related to Customs, and repealed many of the Acts regulating whaling. The Acts regulating whaling were among many obsolete Acts later repealed by Statute Law Revisions in 1861, 1867, 1871, 1872 and 1873
13. 1788. 54 For example, 28 Geo. 3, Cap. 29 Geo. 3, Cap. 66 (1789), 31 Geo. 3, Cap. 54 (1791) required all slave-ships to carry at least one qualified surgeon; 43 Geo. 3, Cap. 56 (1803), 5&6 Vic., Cap. 107 (1842), 7&8 Vic., Cap. 112 (1844), etc. required certain passenger ships to carry a qualified medical man
14. 1780. 60 20 Geo. 3, Cap. and 26 Geo. 3, Cap. 41 (1786)
15. 1786. 50 The main Acts of Parliament in this series are:26 Geo. 3, Cap. 28 Geo. 3, Cap. 20 (1788; some amendments to the 1786 Act), 29 Geo. 3, Cap. 53 (1789; more minor amendments), 38 Geo. 3, Cap. 57 (1798), 42 Geo. 3, Cap. 18 (1802), 45 Geo. 3, Cap. 96 (1805), 48 Geo. 3, Cap. 124 (1808), 51 Geo. 3, Cap. 34 (1811). There were also several short Acts that made minor amendments to one or more of these