Excerpt from Address on the Classification of Shipping: Delivered to the Clyde Sailing and Steamship Owner's Associations at Glasgow, 19th December, 1887, Nathaniel, Dunlop, Esq., In the Chair Those earliest ship lists are said to contain the germs of the Register of Shipping, which came into existence at some period during last century, and which, besides being the first English Classification Society of which there is any record, is the parent of all other Shipping Registries now in existence. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.