Abstracts of the returns made to the Board of Trade of shipping casualties which occurred on or near the coasts or in rivers and harbours of the United Kingdom from the 1st July 1894 to the 30th June 1895; also of the returns made to the Board of Trade during the year 1894-95 of shipping casualties which occurred to British vessels elsewhere than on the coasts of the United Kingdom; and to foreign vessels on or near the coasts or in rivers and harbours of British possessions abroad; with particulars of lives lost by such casualties; and of lives saved at sea; also of the returns made to the registrar general of seamen during the year 1894-95 of the lives lost from British vessels by accidents other than casualties to the vessels, and by disease, &c.; together with abstracts of the official inquiries in the United Kingdom into the causes of sea casualties, held by order of the Board of Trade, during the year 1894-95; and of the official inquiries abroad, instituted by consular and colonial officers and others, into the causes of sea casualties, of which the reports were received at the Board of Trade during the year 1894-95; and of other investigations at home and abroad which affected the certificates of masters and officers in the mercantile marine. With charts and appendices [electronic resource].