The Marine Society
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the-marine-society-209-1365188
title:
The Marine Society
text:
The Marine Society is a British charity, the world's first established for seafarers. In 1756, at the beginning of the Seven Years' War against France, Austria, and Saxony Britain urgently needed to recruit men for the navy. Jonas Hanway (1712–1786), who had already made his mark as a traveller, Russia Company merchant, writer and philanthropist, must take the chief credit for founding the society which both contributed to the solution of that particular problem, and has continued for the next t
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description:
British charity for seafarers
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Marine_Society
date created:
2006-03-19T15:44:51Z
date modified:
2024-09-11T13:17:26Z
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