Coasting Trade

Coasting trade. See 12 & 13 Vict. c. 29; 17 & 18 Vict. c. 5; and 18 & 19 Vict. c. 96 (repealed by (English) Customs and Consolidation Act, 1876 (39 & 40 Vict. c. 36), see ss. 140-148)....

Coaster

A vessel employed in sailing along a coast or engaged in the coasting trade...

Patamar

A vessel resembling a grab used in the coasting trade of Bombay and Ceylon...

Official Log-book, a log-book in a certain form, and containing certain specified entries required by ss. 239 and 240 of the (English) Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, re-enacting ss. 280-282 of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1854, to be kept by all British merchant ships, except those exclusively engaged in the coasting trade. By s. 239(6) the entries are admissible as evidence....

Coast-guard

Coast-guard. See the (English) Coast Guard Service Act, 1856 (19 & 20 Vict. c. 83), 'to provide for the better defence of the Coasts of the Realm,. And the ready manning of the Navy; and th transfer' to the Admiralty 'from the Board of Customs the Government of the Coast Guard,' whereby the Admiralty may raise such number of officers or men from time to time up to 10,000 as it may think fit for the constitution of a Coast-guard. The force was originally formed merely for the prevention of smuggling, in connection with which it has many duties to discharge under the Customs Acts. The (English) Coast-guard Act, 1925 (15 & 16 Geo. 5, c. 88), transfers the control of the Coast-guard service to the Board of Trade but in case of emergency it can be transferred to the Admiralty....

Coasting ship

Coasting ship, any ship for the time being engaged in the trade of carrying goods coastwise between places in the United Kingdom and a place in the Isle of Man is, for the purposes of the Customs and Excise Acts, 1979, a coasting ship, Customs and Excise Management Act, 1979, s. 73(1) (UK)...

African company

African company, a company which, under a charter of Charles II., enjoyed an exclusive trade from the port of Sallee, in South Barbary, to the Cape of Good Hope, both inclusive, with all the islands near to those coasts. Several statutes were passed, placing their trade upon a new footing, but 1 & 2 Geo. 4, c. 28, abolished the company and annulled all the grants made to them; under it the Crown took possession of their forts and castles, and the trade was thrown open....

Smack

A small sailing vessel commonly rigged as a sloop used chiefly in the coasting and fishing trade...

Doni

A clumsy craft having one mast with a long sail used for trading purposes on the coasts of Coromandel and Ceylon...

Ship

Ship, the carriage of goods by Sea Act, 1925 (26 of 1925). [XXVI of 1925, Sch. Art. 1, Cl. (d)]Ship, means any vessel used for the carriage of goods by sea.A type of vessel used or intended to be used in navigation, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1382.In the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894 (57 & 58 Vict. c. 60), by s. 742, 'includes every description of vessel used in navigation not propelled by oars.' [This definition has been adopted by the Workmen's Compensation Act, 1925 (15 & 16 Geo. 5, c. 34), s. 48(1)]'Foreign-going ship,' by the same s., 'includes every ship employed in trading, or going between some place or places in the United Kingdom, and some place or places situate beyond the following limits: that is to say, the coasts of the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man, and the continent of Europe, between the river Elbe and Brest inclusive'; and'Home-trade ship' includes 'every ship employed in trading or going' within the above limits; and'Home-trade pass...

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