Transcriber's Note.
Apparent typographical errors have been corrected. The use of hyphensand of accents has been rationalised.
A notice of other works on shipping has been moved to the end of thebook. In the Table of Contents the heading "APPENDICES" has been shiftedto precede the lines that list the appendices themselves.
Appendix I (A Summary of the Navigation Laws of the United States) has aseparate author and its own Table of Contents.
THE LAW OF THE SEA
SHIPPING SERIES
TRAINING FOR THE STEAMSHIP BUSINESS
EDITORS:
Emory R. Johnson Ph.D., Sc.D.
Dean of the Wharton School of Finance and Commerce,
University of Pennsylvania.
Roy S. MacElwee, Ph.D.
Director of the U. S. Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce.
THE LAW OF THE SEA
A MANUAL OF THE PRINCIPLES OF ADMIRALTY LAW
FOR STUDENTS, MARINERS, AND SHIP OPERATORS
BY
GEORGE L. CANFIELD
OF THE MICHIGAN BAR
AND
GEORGE W. DALZELL
OF THE BAR OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
WITH A SUMMARY OF THE NAVIGATION LAWS
OF THE UNITED STATES
BY
JASPER YEATES BRINTON
D. APPLETON & COMPANY
NEW YORK LONDON
1921
COPYRIGHT, 1921, BY
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
EDITORS' PREFACE
This is the third volume of a series of manuals dealing withthe business of ocean shipping and transportation. The firstvolume published dealt with steamship traffic operation and waswritten by Professor G. G. Huebner. The second volume wasupon "Marine Insurance," the author being Professor S. S.Huebner. In the first volume published, the following prefaceappeared:
"This volume upon the management of ocean steamship traffic is the firstof a series of manuals designed to assist young men in training for theshipping business. The necessity for such a series of manuals becameevident when, as a result of the great war, the tonnage of vessels underthe American Flag was, within a brief period, increased many fold. Tocarry on the war and to meet the demands of ocean commerce after thewar, the United States Government, through the Shipping Board andprivate shipyards, brought into existence a large mercantile marine. Ifthese ships are to continue in profitable operation under the AmericanFlag, the people of the United States must be trained to operate them.Steamship companies, ship-brokers and freight-forwarders must all beable to secure men necessary to carry on the commercial and shippingactivities that make use of the ships. A successful merchant marinerequires ships, men to man the ships, and business organization to giveemployment to the vessels.
"In its Bulletin upon 'Vocational Education for Foreign Tradeand Shipping' (since republished as 'Training for Foreign Trade,'Miscellaneous Series No. 97, Bureau of Foreign and DomesticCommerce, for sale by the Superintendent of Documents), theFederal Board for Vocational Education includes among othercourses suggested for foreign trade training two shipping coursesupon subjects with which exporters should be familiar, namely,'Principles of Ocean Tra