Physical description

Hard cover book. Lloyds Register of Shipping Vol 3 1962-63 (List of Ship Owners)
Author: Institutional publication
Publisher: Lloyds Registry ,71 Fenchurch Street, London, E.C.3
Date: 1962
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.