What is a Pllimsoll Mark? 1pt.

How did Plimsoll Mark's come in to being? 2 pts.

Everyone should know the meaning, but the history is interesting:
http://www.plimsoll.com/history.html


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What is a Pllimsoll Mark? 1pt.

How did Plimsoll Mark's come in to being? 2 pts.

the 'load line' on a ship.


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did you catch this quote?

Moreover he is very fond of his wife, and continually
mentions her as having assisted in his work, which is a
nother proof of madness.

Jeff Morris wrote

Everyone should know the meaning, but the history is interesting:
http://www.plimsoll.com/history.html


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What is a Pllimsoll Mark? 1pt.

How did Plimsoll Mark's come in to being? 2 pts.

Scott Vernon wrote

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What is a Pllimsoll Mark? 1pt.

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Oops. that should be 3 pts to Jeff.

I've also read that it all started in a bar called Lloyds in London.

Before insurance, if a ship was lost, a drinking buddy was lost
also. The merchants got together and kicked in some money
to help their ruined friends get started again.

This led to the abuses of overloading ships when it became a
win-win situation for the merchants who overloaded their ships.


COPY of text Jeff linked:

Samuel Plimsoll, M.P.
(1824-1898)

Samuel Plimsoll brought about one of the greatest shipping revolutions
ever known by shocking the British nation into making reforms which
have saved the lives of countless seamen. By the mid-1800's, the
overloading of English ships had become a national problem. Plimsoll
took up as a crusade the plan of James Hall to require that vessels bear
a load line marking indicating when they were overloaded, hence
ensuring the safety of crew and cargo. His violent speeches aroused the
House of Commons; his book, Our Seamen, shocked the people at
large into clamorous indignation. His book also earned him the hatred
of many ship owners who set in train a series of legal battles against
Plimsoll. Through this adversity and personal loss, Plimsoll clung
doggedly to his facts. He fought to the point of utter exhaustion until
finally, in 1876, Parliament was forced to pass the Unseaworthy Ships
Bill into law, requiring that vessels bear the load line freeboard marking.
It was soon known as the "Plimsoll Mark" and was eventually adopted
by all maritime nations of the world.

When the Plimsoll Club was established in 1967, its founders elected to
the name the Club after Samuel Plimsoll to honor his great contribution
to international trade and to identify the Club with the Plimsoll Mark,
thereby reminding all of his efforts on behalf of seamen everywhere.

The Plimsoll Mark

The Plimsoll Mark diagrammed above is for the starboard side of a
vessel; on the port side,the markings are reversed. The center of the
disk is placed at the middle of the loadline. The lines are one inch think.

The letters signify:

LTF Lumber, Tropical, Fresh
LF Lumber, Fresh
LT Lumber, Tropical
LS Lumber, Summer
LW Lumber, Winter
LWNA Lumber, Winter,
North Atlantic
LR Lloyds Register of Shipping
TF Tropical Fresh Water Mark
F Fresh Water Mark
T Tropical Load Line
S Summer Load Line
W Winter Load Line
WNA Winter Load Line, North Atlantic


From an article on Samuel Plimsoll in an 1873 issue of Vanity Fair:

He is not a clever man, he is a poor speaker and a feeble writer, but
he has a big good heart, and with the untutored utterings of that he has
stirred even the most indifferent. He has taken up a cause, not a popular
cause nor a powerful one -- only the cause of the British sailor who is
sent to sea in rotten vessels in order that ship-owners may thrive. He has
written a book about it -- a book jumbled together in the fashion of an
insane farrago, written without method and without art, but powerful and
eloquent beyond any work that has appeared for years because it is the
simple honest cry of a simple honest man. Also a man who is bold enough
to tell what he believes to be the truth, and it is still pleasing to many
people in these Islands to find that in any accessible form.

He has his reward. Any number of actions for libel have been commenced
against him, he has been forced to apologize in the House of Commons,
and were it not that he has found strong and passionate support among the
public, he would be a lost man. His crime indeed is great. He has declared
that there are men among the Merchants of England who prefer their own
profits to the lives of their servants, and who habitually sacrifice their
men to
their money.

He has moreover averred that the labouring classes are the more part a
brave,
high-souled, generous race who merit better treatment than to have their
highest qualities made the instruments of their destruction. He tells of men
who
go to certain death rather than have their courage impugned, of men who
freely share their meager crust with companions in poverty, and he claims
sympathy and admiration for them although it is well-known that they are
ill-washed, uncouth and rude of speech. Manifestly such a proceeding could
only be the offspring of a distempered brain, and so it has gone forth that
the
sailors' champion is "mad on this question."

Moreover he is very fond of his wife, and continually mentions her as having
assisted in his work, which is another proof of madness. Whereupon it is
clear that no great attention need be paid to Plimsoll. He has secured the
inquiry he asked for however, and in due course of time we shall learn from
it that there never was a country where the humble capitalist was so
enslaved
by the arrogant labourer as this, nor a trade in which the labourer's
arrogance
was so strongly marked as in that which has to do with ships.

Jeff Morris wrote

Everyone should know the meaning, but the history is interesting:
http://www.plimsoll.com/history.html


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