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 1907 to the 30th June 1908. Also of the returns made to the Board of Trade during the year 1907-8 of shipping casualties which occurred to British vessels elsewhere than on or near the coasts, or in rivers and harbours, 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 during the year 1907-8 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 shipping casualties, held by order of the Board of Trade, during the year 1907-8; and of the official inquiries abroad, instituted by consular and colonial officers and others, into the causes of shipping casualties, of which the reports were received at the Board of Trade during the year 1907-8; 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].