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The National Dock Labour Board was set up in 1947 to find a solution to the prevailing casual labour system in Britain's ports. Its two aims were to ensure that dock work was undertaken only by ...

In 1864 John Clint (d.1868), a Liverpool seaman and shipowner, founded a charitable institution to provide a secure environment in which to train the sons of sailors, destitute and orphaned boys, to ...