Research Catalog

Title

Rough waters : sovereignty and the American merchant flag / Rodney P. Carlisle.

Author

Carlisle, Rodney P.

Publication

Annapolis, Maryland : Naval Institute Press, [2017]

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Details

Description

xii, 278 pages, 6 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 25 cm.

Summary

• " Rough Waters traces the evolution of the role of the U.S. merchant ship flag, and the U.S. merchant fleet itself. Rodney Carlisle looks at conduct and commerce at sea from the earliest days of the country, when battles at sea were fought over honor and the flag, to the current American-owned merchant fleet sailing under flags of convenience via foreign registries. Carlisle examines the world-wide use, legality, and continued acceptance of this practice, as well as measures to off-set its ill effects. Looking at the interwar period of 1919-1939, Carlisle examines how the practice of foreign registry of American-owned vessels began on a large scale, led by Standard Oil with tankers under the flag of the Free City of Danzig and followed by Panama. The work spells out how the United States helped further the practice of registry in Panama and Liberia after World War II. Rough Waters concludes with a look at how the practice of foreign registry shapes present-day commerce and labor relations. "--
• "Rough Waters traces the evolution of the role of the U.S. Merchant ship flag, and the U.S. merchant fleet. Carlisle looks at conduct and commerce at sea from the earliest days of the country, when battles at sea were fought over honor and the flag, to the current American-owned merchant fleet sailing under flags of convenience via foreign registries. Carlisle examines the world-wide use, legality, and continued acceptance of this practice, as well as measures to off-set its ill effects. Rough Waters concludes with a look at how the practice of foreign registry shapes present-day commerce and labor relations"--

Series Statement

New perspectives on maritime history and nautical archaeology

Uniform Title

New perspectives on maritime history and nautical archaeology

Subject

• Ships > Registration and transfer > History. > United States
• Flags of convenience > United States > History
• Ship transfers to foreign registry > History
• Merchant marine > United States > History
• HISTORY > Military > Naval
• Flags of convenience
• Merchant marine
• Ship transfers to foreign registry
• Ships > Registration and transfer
• United States

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-261) and index.

Contents

Introduction: The flight from flag to flag -- The maritime Code Duello -- Right of search, 1812 -- 58 -- Flagging-Out in the U. S. Civil War -- The flag insulted, 1865 -- 95 -- The new american empire and the muscat dhows decision -- Attacks on the american merchant flag as casus belli in world war I -- Danzig, the missing link in flags in convience -- Panama, 1919 -- 39 -- Neutrality and war -- Sovereignty for sale -- Challenges ashore and at sea, 1955 -- 80 -- The Marshall Islands Register -- Second registers and Port-State Control -- Conclusion.

ISBN

• 9781682470091
• 1682470091
• 9781682470879 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2016030922

OCLC

• ocn945951194
• 945951194
• SCSB-1876894

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library