Selected Sources

Manuscript

Correspondence of Ian Finlinson to Archivist, MHA, Memorial University, September, 2008. MHA.

Published

Alexander, David. "Literacy Among Canadian and Foreign Seamen, 1863-1899" in Working Men Who Got Wet: Proceedings of the Fourth Conference of the Atlantic Canada Shipping Project, July 24-July 26, 1980. Edited by Rosemary Ommer and Gerald Panting. St. John's: Maritime History Group, Memorial University of Newfoundland, 1980.

Balachandran, G. "Recruitment and Control of Indian Seamen: Calcutta, 1880-1935" in International Journal of Maritime History. Vol. XI, No. 1. (1997), 1-18.

Bolster, W. Jeffrey. Black Jacks: African American Seamen in the Age of Sail. London, 1997.

Bullen, Frank. The Men of the Merchant Service. New York, 1900.

Burton, Valerie. "Counting Seafarers: The Published Records of the Registry of Merchant Seamen, 1849-1913" in The Mariner's Mirror. Vol. 71, No. 3. 1985, 305-320.

"The Myth of Bachelor Jack: Masculinity, Patriarchy and Seafaring Labour" in Jack Tar in History: Essays in the History of Maritime Life and Labour. Edited by Colin Howell and Richard J. Twomey. Fredericton, 1991. pp. 179-198.

Course, Alfred George. The Merchant Navy; A Social History. London: F. Muller, 1963.

Ewald, Janet. "Crossers of the Sea: Slaves, Freedmen, and other Migrants in the Northwestern Indian Ocean, c. 1750-1914," American Historical Review 105, no. 1 (2000): 69.

Frost, Diane (ed) Ethnic Labour and British Imperial Trade: A History of Ethnic Seafarers in the UK (London, 1995).

Land, Isaac. War, Nationalism, and the British Sailor, 1750-1850. New York, 2010.

Manning of Merchant Ships Committee. (1896) Report of the Committee Appointed by the Board of Trade to Inquire into the Manning of British Merchant Ships. British Parliamentary Papers, XL.

McMurray, HC. "Technology and Social Change at Sea: The Status and Position on Board of the Ship's Engineer, Circa 1830-60" in Working Men Who Got Wet: Proceedings of the Fourth Conference of the Atlantic Canada Shipping Project, July 24-July 26, 1980. Edited by Rosemary Ommer and Gerald Panting. St. John's: Maritime History Group, Memorial University of Newfoundland, 1980.

Ommer, Rosemary E. "Composed of All Nationalities: The Crews of Windsor Vessels, 1862-1899" in Working Men Who Got Wet: Proceedings of the Fourth Conference of the Atlantic Canada Shipping Project, July 24-July 26, 1980. Edited by Rosemary Ommer and Gerald Panting. St. John's: Maritime History Group, Memorial University of Newfoundland, 1980.

Riche, John. "Service at Sea: Stewards Department on North Atlantic Passenger liners, 1871-1911." Honours BA dissertation [unpublished]; Memorial University. 1994.

Sager, Eric W. Seafaring Labour: The Merchant Marine of Atlantic Canada, 1820-1914. Kingston, 1989.

Tabili, Laura "We Ask For British Justice": Workers and Racial Difference in Late Imperial Britain (Ithaca and London, 1994)

Visram, Rozina. Ayahs, Lascars and Princes: The Story of Indians in Britain, 1700-1947. London, 1986.

Wallace, Frederick William. Wooden Ships and Iron Men: The Story of the Square-Rigged Merchant Marine of British North America, the Ships, Their Builders and Owners, and the Men Who Sailed Them. London, 1924.