Crew Agreements:

Ballaarat, ON 81838, 1890 & 1894, MHA.

Gilbert Thompson, ON 44688, 1873, MHA.

Oolobaria, ON 106036, 1897, MHA.

Palawan, ON 102400, 1897, 1900, 1901 & 1903, MHA.

Rewa, ON 85946, 1896, MHA.

Rome, ON 81820, 1882 & 1900, MHA.

Sir Bartle Frere, ON 30634, 1874, MHA.

St. Patrick, ON 64538, 1877, MHA.

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Pulling, Alexander. The Shipping Code: Being the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894. London: Sweet & Maxwell Ltd, 1894.

Ricardo, John Lewis. The Anatomy of the Navigation Laws. London: Charles Gilpin, 1849.

Sims, George Robert. Living London: Its Work and Its Play, Its Humour and Its Pathos, Its Sights and Its Scenes. London: Cassell and Co, 1902.

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