NAUTICAL MAGAZINE

FOR 1874.

NEW. SERIES.

A JOURNAL OF PAPERS

ON SUBJECTS CONNECTED WITH

MARITIME AFFAIRS.

"THE SEAS BUT JOIN THE NATIONS THEY DIVIDE."

VOLUME XLIII.

London:

SIMPKIN, MARSHALL & CO., STATIONERS' HALL COURT,

AND

J. D. POTTER, 31, POULTRY.

THE

NAUTICAL MAGAZINE.

NEW SERIES.

JANUARY, 1874.

OUR ANNUAL ADDRESS.

WITH the present number, the Nautical Magazine will enter on its 43rd year of existence. To our old readers, any exposition of our objects and policy is needless; but, to our numerous fresh subscribers, who may be unacquainted with our past work, it may not be out of place, at the present time, to offer a few remarks.

The Nautical Magazine has, from the moment of its birth, been devoted to the publication of fact and trustworthy information, likely to be of use to masters and owners of ships, and likely to further the real interests of seamen and navigation. Free from the advocacy of sensational remedies or measures for alleged evils, and disapproving of maternal interference by the State in the business concerns of daily life, and in matters of constructive detail, we have consistently, fearlessly, and dispassionately exposed all things that, in our judgment, have been evils; we have, in the face of sensational advocacy, always endeavoured to point out that legislation, to be of value, must supplement and strengthen, and not supersede the action of common law, and must recognise and strengthen individual responsibility. Whilst, therefore, we have found it to be our duty to expose, and even to ridicule, misstatements made by well-intentioned persons who suppose that they adyocate the cause of the seaman, we have never lost sight of the broad and true view of the case, that every measure which is for the good of the Mercantile Marine of Britain generally is for the good of the seaman

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