# Shipping Controller

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**Shipping Controller** was a post created by the [Lloyd George Coalition Government](/source/Lloyd_George_Coalition_Government) in 1916 under the [New Ministries and Secretaries Act (6 & 7 George 5 c.68)](/source/New_Ministries_and_Secretaries_Act_1916) to regulate and organize merchant shipping in order to supply the United Kingdom with the materials to fight [the war](/source/World_War_I) following severe losses.[1][2]

## Shipping Controllers

The first Shipping Controller was [Sir Joseph Maclay](/source/Joseph_Maclay,_1st_Baron_Maclay),[1] later Baron Maclay, who was appointed on 10 December 1916.[2]

The second Shipping Controller was [Lord Pirrie](/source/William_Pirrie,_1st_Viscount_Pirrie) from 1918.[3]

## See also

- [Minister of Shipping](/source/Minister_of_Shipping)

## References

1. Hurwitz, Samuel J (15 Oct 2013). ["Chapter XI – The "Jugular Vein": Shipping"](https://books.google.com/books?id=ZQtYAQAAQBAJ&dq=British+Shipping+Controller&pg=PA194). *State Intervention in Great Britain: Study of Economic Control and Social Response, 1914–1919*. [Routledge](/source/Routledge). p. 194. ISBN 9781136931864. Retrieved 15 March 2014.

1. ["British Shipping Controller – Count Dohna and His SeaGull"](https://web.archive.org/web/20160303232532/http://smsmoewe.com/sundry/smsmhd15.htm). Smsmoewe.com. Archived from [the original](http://smsmoewe.com/sundry/smsmhd15.htm) on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 23 March 2014.

1. Lettens, Jan (25 April 2012). ["TSC - The Shipping Controller (WWI)"](http://www.wrecksite.eu/ownerbuilderview.aspx?9161#&&aj=z2mMeoBr4zPVq%2bX5ByI6vmxFxMPJuJObE0zIz03Gz2k%3d). *WreckSite*

## External links

- Finch, Ted & Provost, Gilbert. ["WWI Standard Built Ships"](http://www.mariners-l.co.uk/WWlStandardBuilt.htm). *Mariners*
- ["British Shipping Controller"](http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=MEX19170807.2.23.30). *[Marlborough Express](/source/Marlborough_Express)*. 7 August 1917. – via [Papers Past](/source/National_Library_of_New_Zealand#Papers_Past)
- ["Records inherited and created by the Ministry of Transport, Shipping Divisions"](https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/SearchUI/details?Uri=C874). [The National Archives](/source/The_National_Archives_(United_Kingdom))

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