Sail on, Albion
The usefulness of Lloyd’s Registers for maritime history, 1760–1840
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12124479 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stephen D Behrendt (0000-0001-6014-7723, corresponding author), Peter M Solar (0000-0002-1171-0118) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 568-586 |
| Publication date | 2014-07-24 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Maritime History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0843-8714 • E-ISSN: 2052-7756 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0843871414542733 |
| OpenAlex | W2268634977 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
Lloyd’s Registers are an underexploited source for maritime history, particularly during the industrial revolution era. We provide a critical description of this source, then assess its completeness as a record of British and Irish shipping by an analysis of entries for ships named Albion between 1776 and 1840. We pursue the Albions by comparing the information in the Registers with that in Lloyd’s List, a contemporary maritime newspaper. These exercises show that the Registers are much less than a complete census of British shipping, and that systematic analysis of this source must contend with some discontinuities in its quality
Census · Completeness (order theory · Genealogy · Irish · Irish sea · Linguistics · Media studies · Newspaper · Operations research · Sociology · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Demography · Engineering · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Maritime and Coastal Archaeology · Mathematics
| Citations per year | 0.27 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2015 - 2025 (11) |
| Highly cited | No |