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	Samuel Plimsoll - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Accordingly, on Plimsoll's motion in 1873, a Royal Commission was appointed, and in 1875 a government bill was introduced, which Plimsoll, though regarding it as inadequate, resolved to accept.
		The mark that indicates the limit to which a ship may be loaded became generally known as Plimsoll's mark or line.
		Plimsoll was re-elected for Derby at the general election of 1880 by a great majority, but gave up his seat to William Vernon Harcourt, believing that the latter, as Home Secretary, could advance the sailors' interests more effectively than any private member.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Samuel_Plimsoll (566 words)

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		PLIMSOLL, SAMUEL (1824-1898), British politician and social reformer, was born at Bristol on the loth of February 1824.
		The mark that indicates the limit to which a ship may be loaded is generally known as Plimsoll's mark.
		Plimsoll was re-elected for Derby at the general election of 188o by a great majority, butgave up his seat to Sir W. Harcourt, in the belief that the latter, as home secretary, could advance the sailors' interests more effectively than any private member.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /correction/edit?content_id=53264&locale=en (544 words)

	Plimsoll Club History
		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.
		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 diagrammed above is for the starboard side of a vessel; on the port side, the markings are reversed.
	www.plimsoll.com /history.html (587 words)

	The Plimsoll mark
		The mark is required to be permanently fixed to the vessel amidships on both sides of the hull and painted in a colour that contrasts with the hull colour.
		These marks are used in conjunction with the loadline chart, which clearly shows the designated areas and the dates which apply to these zones.
		A vessel loading in a summer zone for a port in another zone with a higher freeboard requirement may, for instance, load to the summer mark, provided that she has lightened enough due to fuel and water consumption by the time that zone is reached that she is in compliance.
	www.deepcreekyachtclub.com /WebPage/PlimsollMark.html (1161 words)

	Plimsoll, Samuel - The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition - HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Plimsoll was particularly interested in the welfare of sailors.
		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 Plimsoll's mark.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1E1:Plimsoll&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (92 words)

	Waterline - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Waterline refers to an imaginary line marking the level to which ship or boat submerges in the water.
		To an observer on the ship the water appears to rise or fall against the hull of the ship.
		Politician Samuel Plimsoll advocated for the improved safety standards and in his honor the mark bears his name.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Plimsoll_Mark (305 words)

	Plimsoll Mark Summary - Plimsoll Mark Information
		The Act mandated strict inspection of all vessels and required the painting of a special mark, called the "Plimsoll mark," on the side of each ship to indicate the depth to which that ship could be loaded.
		The horizontal line on the registration mark also served as an indicator of the summer freeboard, the distance between the uppermost deck considered watertight and the official load line corresponding to summer sea water.
		The Plimsoll mark prevented shippers from overloading their vessels, considerably decreasing the likelihood of death by drowning for crew members.
	www.bookrags.com /sciences/sciencehistory/plimsoll-mark-woi.html (571 words)

	Plimsoll made his mark - By BUDDY STALL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Plimsoll served in the Parliament during the second half of the 19th century and was made aware of the long-standing and deadly practice of overloading by James Hall.
		Through Plimsoll’s persistence, especially his work with the press, public opinion landed so heavily on Disraeli that the bill was reintroduced and became law in 1876.
		Today, found on the sides of ships all over the world, is a mark – the Plimsoll mark – that allows inspectors to determine in seconds if the ship is overloaded.
	clarionherald.org /19991014/stall.htm (414 words)

	mark - yourDictionary.com - American Heritage Dictionary
		marked the spot where the treasure was buried; a career marked for glory.
		the exuberance that marks her writings; marked the occasion with celebrations.
		Mark my words: they are asking for trouble.
	www.yourdictionary.com /ahd/m/m0112600.html (463 words)

	About Bristol - Famous People - Samuel Plimsoll
		Samuel Plimsoll was born at 9 Colston Parade, Redcliffe in 1824.
		Plimsoll wrote a book called 'Our Seamen' in 1873 which condemned the shipowners who risked sailors' lives by dangerously overloading their vessels with cargo.
		To mark Samuel Plimsoll's achievement in making ships safer, a bust of him was erected at the side of the river on Hotwell Road.
	www.about-bristol.co.uk /fam-11.asp (125 words)

	Group 53:16
		53:16 · This ideogram is known as the Plimsoll mark (after its inventor, the British coal merchant and MP Plimsoll, living in the latter half of the nineteenth century, who took a great interest in the safety of cargo ships).
		This is a Plimsoll mark on a Swedish ship, so the letter markings are others on for instance American ships.
		Each line indicates the allowed freeboard in the part of the oceans where the ship is transporting cargo.
	www.symbols.com /old/encyclopedia/53/5316.html (128 words)

	Plimsoll line (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		If a ship were loaded to capacity in, say, Greenland at a salt water port and sailed to a fresh water port in the tropics there would be a danger of it riding too low in the water at its destination and the risk of it sinking.
		Also known as a Plimsoll mark, the Plimsoll line was introduced in 1876 in England due mainly to the work of the M.P. Samuel Plimsoll as part of the package that became the 'Merchant Shipping Act' of that time.
		The mark is painted onto the side of cargo vessels to indicate the limit to which they can be legally loaded.
	www.grandpapencil.com /science/plimsoll.htm (216 words)

	PLIMSOLL, SAMUEL (1824... - Online Information article about PLIMSOLL, SAMUEL (1824...
		government bill was introduced, which Plimsoll, though regarding it as inadequate, resolved to accept.
		ship may be loaded is generally known as Plimsoll's mark.
		Plimsoll was re-elected for Derby at the See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /PIG_POL/PLIMSOLL_SAMUEL_1824_1898_.html (843 words)

	About
		Mark Plimsoll writes of our internal Foreign Affairs- where palm-fronds shade the moonlight that shines on three American continents of minks and mules, "coyo-lobos", cabrones and chupacabras.
		Plimsoll might be a woman, one of the original Gringo Locos, who emulates the leftist Traven married to the utopian Gauguin.
		Plimsoll deserves a Doctorate in Latino and Wasp Behavior, with a minor in the Killer Bees of the Elitist Model of Government.
	www.markplimsoll.com /about.htm (521 words)

	One-Word-A-Day - today's word quiz
		Adventure has its limits, however, and by 1836 public concern about the loss of ships and crews reached the point where Parliament was forced to appoint a committee to investigate the growing number of shipwrecks.
		In 1870 Samuel Plimsoll, a member of Parliament from the industrial Midlands, demanded creation of a safety limit, a "load line" to limit the weight of cargo loaded aboard ships.
		Plimsoll exposed what he described as "coffin ships" created by overloading, and drafted a bill to improve conditions aboard merchant vessels - his most significant proposal being the application of a few gallons of paint to the hull of every ship - the plimsoll line.
	owad.de /check.php4?id=1217&choice=3&sid=4014 (484 words)

	FAQ's
		Samuel Plimsoll, a British merchant and shipping reformer campaigned for this mark to prevent ships from being overloaded and lost at sea.
		The mark, a circle with a horizontal line through the center was painted on both sides of a ship.
		The letters on the ladder lines to the side of the circle are as follows; TF is Tropical Fresh Water, F is Fresh Water, T is Tropical, S is Summer Season, W is Winter Season and WNA is Winter North Atlantic.
	www.k-sea.com /faq's.htm (848 words)

	OutdoorsBest Forums: Profile for plimsoll mark (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		plimsoll mark has been a member for 629 days.
		plimsoll mark has a user rating of 100%.
		User ratings begin at 100% and points may be subtracted by administrators and moderators.
	outdoorsbest.zeroforum.com /zerouser?cmd=viewprofile&id=39563 (66 words)

	Chapter Plimsoll's mark <i>to</i> Plug of P by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)
		Chapter Plimsoll's mark to Plug of P by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)
		A mark conspicuously painted on the port side of all British sea-going merchant vessels, to indicate the limit of submergence allowed by law; — so called from Samuel Plimsoll, by whose efforts the act of Parliament to prevent overloading was procured.
		In classical architecture, a vertically faced member immediately below the circular base of a column; also, the lowest member of a pedestal; hence, in general, the lowest member of a base; a sub-base; a block upon which the moldings of an architrave or trim are stopped at the bottom.
	www.bibliomania.com /2/3/257/1207/23640/1.html (334 words)

	Lighthouse Harbour Ministries - News & Information
		In 1876 the British government enacted the Merchant Shipping Act, and this law required that every ship bear a certain mark on its bow to indicate at what point the ship had been laden to its maximum allowable weight of fuel and cargo for its safe passage through charted waters...
		for if that mark was found to be below the water-line the ship was deemed to be overloaded, and some of the cargo, or fuel, would need to be removed from the vessel's hold.
		This mark was known as the 'Plimsoll mark' in recognition of Samuel Plimsoll (1824-1898), the British reformer who was instrumental in the passage of that maritime law.
	www.sealight.org /march2002b.html (335 words)

	watermark - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Watermark, term for a figure or design incorporated into paper during its manufacture and appearing lighter than the rest of the sheet when viewed...
		water line, load line, Plimsoll line, Plimsoll mark, mark, imprint, logo, emblem, tideline, tidemark, water line, high watermark, floodmark
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	ca.encarta.msn.com /watermark.html (73 words)

	plimsoll.html (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		It's a good idea to mark off a time on the calendar - a time that you hold inviolate just for getting away during the year to recharge your batteries.
		The Plimsoll line story is a good metaphor and easily understood.
		It may be that our Plimsoll line is higher than we think and we can probably carry more weight and responsibility.
	www.suu.edu /faculty/croxall/fcs3400/plimsoll.html (505 words)

	Eureka! I found out what that little logo on the top of my camera is! [Archive] - Canon Digital Photography Forums (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Seriously though, the mark indicates the film/sensor plane - as pointed out previosly this is to enable exact measurements for critical work as, contrary to what is believed by many, focus distances are measured from this point and not from the front of the lens,
		If it was a Plimsoll mark on your camera, it would only be calibrated for a particular salinity of water.
		The Plimsoll mark is named after its inventor, the British coal merchant and MP Plimsoll, living in the latter half of the nineteenth century, who took a great interest in the safety of cargo ships.
	photography-on-the.net /forum/archive/index.php/t-138689.html (2550 words)

	How Do I Love Thee? - Jeffrey R. Holland
		As I once said of her, paraphrasing what Mark Twain's Adam said of his Eve, "Wherever she was, there was paradise" (see "Adam's Diary").
		As a youth in England, Samuel Plimsoll was fascinated with watching ships load and unload their cargoes.
		When the water level on the side of the ship reached the Plimsoll mark, the ship was considered loaded to capacity, regardless of how much space remained.
	speeches.byu.edu /reader/reader.php?id=1618&x=56&y=3 (3148 words)

	Plimsoll Marks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Navigational draft marks greater than 9 feet are
		Limiting draft marks are installed on the ship’s
		marks indicate the draft that is not to be exceeded
	www.tpub.com /content/combat/10572/css/10572_82.htm (259 words)

	Plimsoll line - Wiktionary
		from Samuel Plimsoll, Bristol merchant and member of Parlament; promoter of the Merchant Shipping Act.
		(nautical) properly the International Load Line, a mark on the hull of a merchant ship to show the waterline under specified conditions.
		The line shows the maximum capacity load the ship may carry.
	en.wiktionary.org /wiki/Plimsoll_line (75 words)

	New Orleans' Premier Banquet Facility: The Plimsoll Club
		The Plimsoll Club is New Orleans' premier banquet and dining facility.
		Named for Samuel Plimsoll (1824 - 1898), originator of the Plimsoll Mark, the Plimsoll Club offers an atmosphere conducive to business or pure pleasure featuring elegant surroundings, impeccable cuisine and flawless service.
		Gracing the wall behind the main bar is a 15th century tapestry from Belgium entitled "The Shipbuilders." Two magnificent paintings with the titles "Toledo" and "El Escorial" are by the famed Spanish painter Augustin Hernandez.
	plimsollclub.com /about.html (268 words)

	The Economist's Response to Ecological Issues 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The major task of environmental macroeconomics is to design an economic institution analogous to the Plimsoll mark -- to keep the weight, the absolute scale, of the economy from sinking our biospheric ark.
		The discount rate should be allowed to solve the allocation problem, within the confines of a solution to the scale problem provided by a presently nonexistent policy instrument that we may for now call an "economic Plimsoll line" that limits the scale of the throughput.
		Economists have recognized the independence of the goals of efficient allocation and just distribution and are in general agreement that it is better to let prices serve efficiency, and to serve equity with income redistribution policies.
	www.jaysquare.com /resources/growthdocs/grow07b.htm (1785 words)

	comp.security.misc: Our Data : an appeal - a "Plimsoll line" for computer security
		Plimsoll took up as a crusade the plan of James Hall to
		+requiring that vessels bear the load line freeboard marking.
		+was soon known as the "Plimsoll Mark" and was eventually adopted
	www.derkeiler.com /Newsgroups/comp.security.misc/2002-10/0596.html (860 words)

	About Coastals
		Sam Plimsoll (1824-1898) was a British politician and reformer who hit at "coffin ships" - unseaworthy, overloaded vessels, often heavily insured, on which unscrupulous owners risked the lives of their crews.
		The mark that indicates the limit to which a ship may be safely loaded is now known as the "Plimsoll mark."
		The circle with the line through it was as far as the mark got in Plimsoll's day.
	www.coastals.org /about (1589 words)

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