Talk:Ship-owner

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The following biography was added by 86.24.102.36 to the article under the heading "List of Shipowners". Making that list complete would neither be desirable for this article nor possible, but the text might be useful elsewhere, so I'm putting it here in the hope that somebody might find a better place for it. //Essin (talk) 22:26, 8 November 2012 (UTC)

William Hammond of Hull
William Hammond was born in 1727 and christened on the 20th Aug 1727 at Saint Michael's Spurriergate in York.

He became a successful Hull sea captain, shipowner and merchant and had properties across Hull's Old Town, including High Street as well as Kirk Ella, where his son George was born. Hammond and Sir Samuel Standidge were prominent in founding Trinity House School. He was a prominent supporter of the MP David Hartley and was well acquainted with many leading seafarers of his time including Captain Cook. Hammond became Chairman of the Hull Dock Company and was Warden one of the Elder Brethren of Hull Trinity House.

He married Ann Bean on 15 Jun 1746 in Saint Olave's Church in York, and died on 26 Jun 1793 in Kirk Ella near Hull. He is buried at Welton.

His son George was the youngest of twelve (The Complete Peerage); he became an Elder Brother of the Trinity House at Hull.

spelling
Shipowner is spelled in three different ways in this article. What's it going to be? Shipowner, ship-owner, or ship owner? Shipowner seems to be standard in the US. Although I generally favour Oxford spelling I would in this case plump for consistency and shipowner. Any comments? Everybody got to be somewhere! (talk) 20:10, 4 September 2013 (UTC)
 * I noticed the same thing and that this is still unresolved after seven years. I'll see if I can get some others involved in this discussion. -- Marchjuly (talk) 06:58, 27 July 2021 (UTC)
 * , as ship-owner was the first spelling used, and as that correlates with the OED spelling, I'd go with that. -- DeFacto (talk). 07:16, 27 July 2021 (UTC)

I'm not sure what you are all waiting for, an engraved invitation? It's been ten years so I went ahead and fixed this. GA-RT-22 (talk) 22:22, 24 April 2023 (UTC)