Shipping Controller
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|constituting_instrument = New Ministries and Secretaries Act 1916
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|formation = 10 December 1916
|first = Sir Joseph Maclay
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Shipping Controller was a post created by the Lloyd George Coalition Government in 1916 under the New Ministries and Secretaries Act (6 & 7 George 5 c.68) to regulate and organize merchant shipping in order to supply the United Kingdom with the materials to fight the war following severe losses.{{cite book |last=Hurwitz |first=Samuel J |title=State Intervention in Great Britain: Study of Economic Control and Social Response, 1914–1919 |date=15 Oct 2013 |publisher=Routledge |page=194 |chapter-url= https://books.google.com/books?id=ZQtYAQAAQBAJ&dq=British+Shipping+Controller&pg=PA194 |access-date=15 March 2014 |chapter=Chapter XI – The "Jugular Vein": Shipping|isbn=9781136931864 }}{{cite web |url=http://smsmoewe.com/sundry/smsmhd15.htm |title=British Shipping Controller – Count Dohna and His SeaGull |publisher=Smsmoewe.com |access-date=23 March 2014 |archive-date=3 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303232532/http://smsmoewe.com/sundry/smsmhd15.htm |url-status=dead }}
Shipping Controllers
The first Shipping Controller was Sir Joseph Maclay, later Baron Maclay, who was appointed on 10 December 1916.
The second Shipping Controller was Lord Pirrie from 1918.{{cite web |url= http://www.wrecksite.eu/ownerbuilderview.aspx?9161#&&aj=z2mMeoBr4zPVq%2bX5ByI6vmxFxMPJuJObE0zIz03Gz2k%3d |last=Lettens |first=Jan |title=TSC - The Shipping Controller (WWI) |work=WreckSite |date=25 April 2012 }}
See also
References
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External links
- {{cite web |url= http://www.mariners-l.co.uk/WWlStandardBuilt.htm |last1=Finch |first1=Ted |last2=Provost |first2=Gilbert |title=WWI Standard Built Ships |website=Mariners}}
- {{cite news |url= http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=MEX19170807.2.23.30 |title=British Shipping Controller |newspaper=Marlborough Express |via=Papers Past |date=7 August 1917}}
- {{cite web |url= https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/SearchUI/details?Uri=C874 |title=Records inherited and created by the Ministry of Transport, Shipping Divisions |publisher=The National Archives}}
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