Lloyd's Register celebrates 250 years of maritime history

摘要

The following article, celebrating 250 years of Lloyd's Register in an historical context, is a necessarily very heavily edited version of a much longer, highly informative historical paper produced by Lloyd's Register which can be read in full at www.bairdmaritime.comrnWith the full benefit of hindsight, Lloyd's Register was founded at a time when the rate of development of marine technology, as we know it today, was beginning to increase. Maritime trade relied without exception on wooden sailing ships. In reality, there was little substantive difference between ships built for trade and those built for naval warfare, and the early Register Books record the armament of the merchant ships listed.