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- Title
Sewing a Safety Net: Scarborough's Maritime Community, 1747-1765.
- Authors
Foy, Charles R.
- Abstract
From 1747 to 1765, Scarborough created a safety net to keep its maritime de- pendents from becoming impoverished. The key components were a web of kinship connections that permitted sailors to move between land and sea, as well as between maritime roles, as they aged; the employment of maritime servants; the extensive hiring of elderly seamen; the use of the Seamen's Six- pence to develop locally operated seamen's hospitals for the benefit of sailors and their families; and strong community support of the hospitals. These com- bined to provide a social safety net that was, by eighteenth-century standards, robust and effective.
- Subjects
ENGLAND; SCARBOROUGH (England); UNITED Kingdom; 18TH century maritime history; FAMILIES; SAILORS; KINSHIP; COMMUNITIES; EIGHTEENTH century; HISTORY; SOCIAL history
- Publication
International Journal of Maritime History, 2012, Vol 24, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
0843-8714
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/084387141202400102