Physical description
Hard cover book. Lloyds Register of Shipping Vol 2 1933-34 Vol 1
Author: Institutional publication
Publisher: Lloyds Registry ,71 Fenchurch Street, London, E.C.3
Date: 1933
Further Information: Blue Leather bound with gilt lettering and embossed leather patterns around edge to front cover.
Publication type
non-fiction
Inscriptions & markings
Registers logo to front cover showing item publication number, also Warrnambool Public Library stamped in gilt showing it was a paid library subscription.
Summary
The subject volume is a Lloyd's Register of Shipping, specifically for the registration of shipping, and is published by Lloyd's Register of Shipping, London; these volumes are produced annually. The Register of Ships is a snapshot of virtually every seagoing merchant vessel over 100 tons worldwide at that time; the book is genuinely useful for maritime historians, ship researchers and genealogists tracing ancestors' vessels.
