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

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