Safety at Sea during the Industrial Revolution

This is a replication package for "Safety at Sea during the Industrial Revolution" and includes data on shipping movements, marine insurance rates and ship losses. Articile abstract: Shipping, central to the rise of the Atlantic economies, was an extremely hazardous activity. Between the 1780s and 1820s, a safety revolution occurred that saw shipping losses and insurance rates on oceanic routes almost halved thanks to steady improvements in shipbuilding and navigation. Copper sheathing, iron reinforcing and flush decks were the major innovations in shipbuilding. Navigation improved, not through chronometers which remained too expensive and unreliable for general use, but through radically improved charts, accessible manuals of basic navigational techniques, and improved shore-based navigational aids.

本数据集为《工业革命时期的海上安全》（"Safety at Sea during the Industrial Revolution"）一文的复现包，涵盖船舶航行动态数据、海上保险费率与船舶失事损失数据。本文摘要：航运是大西洋经济体崛起的核心支撑产业，同时也是一项危险性极高的活动。1780年代至1820年代间，海上安全领域迎来了一场变革：得益于造船与导航技术的持续进步，远洋航线的船舶失事率与保险费率几乎减半。造船领域的主要革新包括铜皮包覆船体、铁质结构加固与平式甲板设计。导航技术的进步并非依赖于彼时仍因成本高昂、可靠性不足而无法普及的航海天文钟，而是源于大幅改良的海图、易于获取的基础导航技术手册，以及更为完善的岸基导航辅助设施。