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The late Mr. T. Gray, C.B., Marine Department of the Board of Trade, 1890. Creator: R. Taylor.

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The late Mr. T. Gray, C.B., Marine Department of the Board of Trade, 1890. 'Mr. Thomas Gray, Permanent Secretary of the Marine Department of the Board of Trade, on March 15, [died] at his residence, Rokesby House, Stock well, aged fifty-eight. He entered the Board of Trade in 1851, and distinguished himself in the service, especially by acquiring a complete knowledge of the work of surveying steamships and their machinery; but in all matters connected with the mercantile marine and with the welfare of seamen, in the abolition of crimping, in the improvement of officers, in wreck inquiries, in the adoption of the rocket and mortar apparatus for casting lines to shipwrecked crews, in the commercial code of signals, in all the legislation and administration arising out of Mr. Plimsoll's movement, he took an active and useful part. The rules of the road at sea he made almost his own, and his rhymes on that subject are well known among seafaring men, and have been translated into most foreign languages'. From "Illustrated London News", 1890.

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HRM25A57_157

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6,3Mo (778,4Ko) / 11,2cm x 14,1cm / 1318 x 1670 (300dpi)

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