A load of sound sense

The Spectator | July 22, 2006| | Copyright

THE PLIMSOLL SENSATION : THE GREAT CAMPAIGN TO SAVE LIVES AT SEA by Nicolette Jones Little, Brown, £20, pp. 395, ISBN 0316726122 . £16 (plus £2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655

Jolly Jack Tar, in the late 19th century, had very little to be jolly about. Between 1830 and 1900, one in five men who went to sea in the Victorian merchant marine would die there -- a mortality rate higher than in any other profession.

Old and unseaworthy ships, rather than being broken up, would be renamed.

Steamers too narrow in the beam for their lengths were converted for sail and sent into the open sea. Above ...

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