Note 302 — Chapter XVII

The writer of a letter which appeared in the ‘Nautical Magazine,’ headed “‘Lloyd’s Register’ and the Great Steam Lines,” and which was afterwards published separately (Pewtress & Co. London. 1872), says, “It is very remarkable that the classing of large steamers with Lloyd’s was nearly wholly omitted until 1870;” arising, I may add, from the fact that the ‘Liverpool Register’ allowed, in such ships, scantlings and arrangements of which Lloyd’s surveyors disapproved. “But,” continues the same writer a little further on, “it is much more remarkable that February 1870 is the date of Lloyd’s new rules, which are, it is supposed, an abandonment of the principle and scantlings of the old rules.” We have here exemplified in the most forcible manner the evils of competing classification associations.