- Title Pages
- List of Illustrations
- Foreword
- Author's Introduction to the Second Edition
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction to the Original Edition
-
Chapter 1 Macgregor Laird -
Chapter 2 Alexander Elder and John Dempster -
Chapter 3 Alfred Lewis Jones -
Chapter 4 The West African Shipping Conference -
Chapter 5 Expansion and Diversification -
Chapter 6 The Effects of the Conference System -
Chapter 7 Lord Kylsant -
Chapter 8 The Great War -
Chapter 9 Reconstruction and Change -
Chapter 10 The End of the Royal Mail Group -
Chapter 11 The Reorganisation of the Company -
Chapter 12 The Second World War -
Chapter 13 Post-War Reconstruction -
Chapter 14 Recent Developments -
Chapter 15 The Future -
Chapter 16 A False Dawn and Terminal Decline - List of Appendices
- Bibliography
- Index
The Great War
The Great War
- Chapter:
- (p.151) Chapter 8 The Great War
- Source:
- The Trade Makers
- Author(s):
Peter N. Davies
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
This chapter describes the First World War’s effect on British shipping and West African trade. It discusses shipping losses and incidents, and describes the consequences of the end of trade with Germany and Austria; the closure of the Baltic and Black seas; congestion at ports; and the strain and depletion of ships. The chapter also reports the collapse of the West African Shipping Conference at the beginning of the war and describes the ways in this affected Elder Dempster and the Lever Brothers.
Keywords: West Africa, British West Africa, West African Trade, West African Shipping Trade, Liverpool Shipping, Elder Dempster, Lever Brothers, First World War, The Great War
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- Title Pages
- List of Illustrations
- Foreword
- Author's Introduction to the Second Edition
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction to the Original Edition
-
Chapter 1 Macgregor Laird -
Chapter 2 Alexander Elder and John Dempster -
Chapter 3 Alfred Lewis Jones -
Chapter 4 The West African Shipping Conference -
Chapter 5 Expansion and Diversification -
Chapter 6 The Effects of the Conference System -
Chapter 7 Lord Kylsant -
Chapter 8 The Great War -
Chapter 9 Reconstruction and Change -
Chapter 10 The End of the Royal Mail Group -
Chapter 11 The Reorganisation of the Company -
Chapter 12 The Second World War -
Chapter 13 Post-War Reconstruction -
Chapter 14 Recent Developments -
Chapter 15 The Future -
Chapter 16 A False Dawn and Terminal Decline - List of Appendices
- Bibliography
- Index
