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Ebb Tide in the British Maritime Industries - Change and Adaptation, 1918-1990 (Hardcover)
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Ebb Tide in the British Maritime Industries - Change and Adaptation, 1918-1990 (Hardcover)
Series: Exeter Maritime Studies
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This book examines how the principal British maritime industries -
shipping, shipbuilding and ports - adapted, or failed to adapt, to
a changing world in the period between 1918 to 1990, and discusses
their reactions to the great opportunities seemingly offered by
offshore oil and gas from the mid-1960s. At the outbreak of World
War I, Britain's maritime industries still dominated the world. The
British merchant fleet was by far the largest in the world, the
nation's shipbuilding output eclipsed all rivals, and British ports
were busy and expanding.By 1990, British shipping was a shadow of
its former self, shipbuilding seemed on the verge of total
collapse, and although the ports had been modernised, trade was
concentrated at only a few of them. For almost four centuries,
these industries had been of vital importance to Britain's wealth
and power, but by 1990, politicians scarcely gave them a second
thought.
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