shipping between 1750 to 1900?

Question

how did shipping change england in the victorian era.
also can i have some added information about shipping
best answer gets 10 points

ghost, i meant shipping goods over back in those days

also when you search the net all that comes up is everything else apart from shipping

Answer 1

During that period, Britain actually controlled half of all world trade and therefore half of the merchant ships on the oceans where British. Records where kept of the monthly tonnages of goods transported and from where to where.

At this time, insurance of ships and cargo developed, originally at Mr. Lloyd's Coffee House, and this grew into the world's largest maritime insurer, Lloyd's of London who still manage the majority of the world's maritime insurance. before that, all ships were at owner's risk (see Shakespeare's "Merchant of Venice" for an example of a shipload of goods that did not arrive and "The Count of Montecristo" has a similar story in it).
Britain became a great naval force in Victorian times to protect its ships and ports from piracy and invasion and to find men to man the ships, "press gangs" were allowed to kidnap young men and press them to serve in the navy for up to seven years.
Economically, in Britain, the rich got richer and the poor got poorer. Merchants were able to bring in manufactured products from as far away as China at very cheap prices and as an example this destroyed the silk weaving industry in London's Spitalfields. It also kept agricultural labourers wages at starvation levels as cheap wheat came in from Canada and Russia and forced down prices so that farmers at home could not make money growing it. The Corn Laws attempted to stop these imports but had to be repealed in 1840 as the Irish potato crop had failed and the Irish people faced mass starvation unless they could be given cheap bread and to do that the government had to import cheap wheat.
In the late Victorian era, Chancellor Bismark of Prussia amalgamated some 50 German-speaking principalities, towns and countries into what became the German empire in 1872. Bismark had kept Britain happy by declaring Germany had no desire to form overseas colonies but by 1890, the young Kaiser reversed many of Bismark's clever treaties, taken over African countires like Kenya, Tanganyika and part of South Africa, built a large navy of his own and gave Britain great cause for concern. In many ways, Britain was delighted to win the Battle of Jutland which resulted in the destruction of that navy in the First World War.
Is this enough or do I have to work a bit more for my ten points?

Answer 2

i dont know but you could look on the internet for some info.

Answer 3

if you have been waiting since those times for your order, you need a refund