Witherby Seamanship

Witherby Seamanship is a marine publisher of training, reference and regulatory materials and is the resulting merger of Witherby Books and Seamanship International in January 2008. It lays claim to being the oldest independent publisher in the English-speaking world.[1][2][3]

History

Since the 1930s Witherby Books continued the tradition of bookselling initially started by Thomas Witherby in 1740.

In 1998 Seamanship International began providing training materials for the maritime industry.

Awards

Recent awards have included the Queens Award for Enterprise and the Lloyds List Training Award

External links

References

  1. ↑ "Witherby Seamanship International Ltd". Publishing Scotland. Archived from the original on 23 February 2011. Retrieved 24 February 2011.
  2. ↑ "2015 Company Fact Sheet" (PDF). Retrieved 19 May 2015.
  3. ↑ "Witherby History". Retrieved 19 May 2015.


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