1. A. G. Jamieson (2003) Ebb Tide in the British Maritime Industries. Change and Adaptation 1918–1990 ( Exeter: University of Exeter Press ).
2. See S. G. Sturmey (1960) British Shipping and World Competition (London: Athlone Press. Reprint 2010, St John’s Newfoundland: IMEHA );
3. R. Hope (1990) A New History of British Shipping ( London: John Murray);
4. Jamieson Ebb Tide; S. Palmer (2008) ‘British Shipping from the Late Nineteenth Century to Present’, in L. R. Fischer and E. Lange (eds) International Merchant Shipping in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: The Comparative Dimension (St John’s Newfoundland: IME HA);
5. R. Woodman (2010) Fiddler’s Green. The Great Squandering: 1921–2010 ( Stroud: The History Press ).