BACKGROUND The British merchant fleet has expanded in recent years but it is not known whether this expansion has led to proportionate changes in mortality. AIMS To investigate mortality from accidents and injuries in British merchant shipping, to determine whether this has increased in recent years, to compare fatal accident rates across British industries and to review fatal accident rates ...

A marine automation system for merchant ships consists of machinery control & monitoring system and cargo control & monitoring system. Extension Alarm System (EAS) has been installed for machinery control & monitoring system to provide machinery alarms to bridge, cabins, and public areas. However, EAS of the latest marine automation systems requires the integrated functionality for both machine...

The Royal Navy's victory at Trafalgar on 21 October 1805 has been recognised by historians as the point at which Britain became the nineteenth century's unchallenged maritime power. Its maritime strength in the immediate post-Trafalgar era was symbolized not only by its line-of-battle ships, frigates, corvettes and sloops scattered on stations around the globe but also by its industrial capacit...