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Samuel Plimsoll

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Samuel Plimsoll , 1824–98, English reformer. Plimsoll was particularly interested in the welfare of sailors. As a member of Parliament (1868–80) he secured legislation limiting the loading of ships. It required that a line be painted on the sides of all British merchant vessels to show the limit of submergence allowed by law. This line has come to be known as the Plimsoll mark or Plimsoll line. He wrote Our Seamen (1872).

Bibliography: See D. Masters, The Plimsoll Mark (1955).

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Plimsoll, Samuel (1824–98) British social reformer. As a radical member of Parliament (1868–80), he was chiefly responsible for the Merchant Shipping Act (1876). This Act enforced government inspection of shipping and required merchant ships to have a line, subsequently known as the Plimsoll line, painted on their hulls to indicate safe loading limits.

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