Shipping Lords and Coolie StokersWhen eighty seven passengers and crew died in the shipwreck of the Royal Mail Ship Egypt in 1922, the accident gave rise to a racist international press campaign against the employment of Indian seafarers, who had comprised the majority of the ships crew. This was not unusual at a time when a fifth of the British mercantile marines workforce was recruited from the subcontinent. Shipping Lords and Coolie Stokers combines the extensive press coverage