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	Historical background to adoption of Load Lines convention (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The load line mark included in the legislation - though the position of the line was not fixed by law until 1894 - became known as the "Plimsoll Line": a circle with a horizontal line through the middle.
		Load line legislation was introduced in the American congress in 1920 and failed, but a Load Line Act was passed in the United States in 1929.
		Forward of the disc was a grid composed of lines indicating the maximum loading, for the summer a the level with the line in the disc and others further down for winter, for winter in the north Atlantic and above for the tropical zones and for fresh water.
	www.imo.org /Conventions/mainframe.asp?topic_id=1034 (2239 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)

	Epilogue: McGill's Own Plimsoll
		Samuel Plimsoll, who campaigned against overloaded, unseaworthy ships, was a dour, serious man. In 1868, he was elected to the British Parliament and presented a Bill against "coffin ships" as he called them.
		Plimsoll practised as a junior with Robert Taschereau and Thibodeau Rinfret, who became Chief Justices of the Supreme Court of Canada.
		Plimsoll often telephoned with advice and the conversation was always formal.
	www.mcgill.ca /news/2005/winter/epilogue (928 words)

	Symbols.com - Symbol 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 /encyclopedia/53/5316.html (148 words)

	Samuel Plimsoll's Merchant Shipping Act (1876)
		In 1850 legislation was passed to create the Marine Department of the Board of Trade: one of its duties was to enforce the laws governing the manning, crew competence and operation of merchant vessels.
		Despite calls for regulation, the British government avoided direct interference with ship operators until 1870 when Samuel Plimsoll (1824-1898), a member of Parliament from Derby, headed a campaign to require that vessels bear a load line marking indicating when they were overloaded, hence ensuring the safety of crew and cargo.
		This Plimsoll line is for the starboard side of a vessel; on the port side,the markings are reversed.
	www.victorianweb.org /victorian/history/plimsoll.html (325 words)

	Why Plimsoll? - PortCities Southampton
		This mark is called the load line and by law it is fixed on the side of ships to this day.
		It quickly became known as the 'Plimsoll line' in honour of Samuel Plimsoll's work.
		Some of the changes came about after Plimsoll's death in 1888, but his tireless work to protect lives at sea led to his nickname, the "sailor's friend".
	www.plimsoll.org /StartHere/AboutUs/WhyPlimsoll.asp (316 words)

	Cities of Science - South West - Samuel Plimsoll
		Plimsoll was elected MP for Derby in the 1868 General Election and immediately began campaigning for legislation protecting sailors to be passed.
		Plimsoll stepped down as MP almost as soon as this Act had been passed, but continued to pursue issues affecting sailors until his death in 1898.
		A statue was erected as a memorial to Plimsoll in Hotwells, Bristol, in 1963.
	www.citiesofscience.co.uk /go/SouthWest/ContentPlace_2292.html (277 words)

	Plimsoll line - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Plimsoll line is the mark on the hull of a ship that shows where the waterline is when the ship is loaded to full capacity according to the condition of the water at the point of loading.
		The Plimsoll shoe is named for the shoe's horizontal lines, which resemble the Plimsoll line.
		This article related to water transport is a stub.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Plimsoll_Mark (189 words)

	Plimsoll line -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		At the instigation of one of its members, Samuel Plimsoll, a merchant and shipping reformer, the British Parliament, in the Merchant Shipping Act of 1875, provided for the marking of a load line on the hull of every cargo ship, indicating the maximum depth to which the ship could be...
		The necessity of coming into port gave shore authorities the opportunity to exact certain payments, but, until regulation began to appear in the middle of the 19th century, owners and captains were free to do as they pleased in building and operating their ships.
		Fall lines commonly occur at the edges of plateaus and piedmonts, where streams pass from resistant rocks to a plain of weak rocks below.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9313002 (806 words)

	Load lines : Ports, docks and dockyards : Maritime, sea & ships : Fact files : Learning : National Maritime Museum
		In 1870, the MP Samuel Plimsoll, who was a coal merchant, became interested after attending a meeting on the subject.
		However, the position of the line was not fixed by law until 1894.
		The Plimsoll Mark shows six loading levels, those which may be used in tropical fresh water; fresh water; tropical sea water; summer, sea water; winter, sea water; and winter, North Atlantic, for vessels under 100 metres (330 ft) in length.
	www.nmm.ac.uk /server/show/conWebDoc.153 (1205 words)

	Pepys' Diary: Monday 15 April 1661
		Sorry to dog the subject but, the Plimsole line will register the depth in water of the vessel which in calm conditions will give no indiction of the inherent stability or the tendency to turn turtle.
		Even a ship loaded at dockside down to her “fully laden” Plimsole mark might come to grief when at sea if the cargo shifts due to poor packing in the hold, or even shifts due to rough weather.
		Plimsoll [plimsole] was for ships instituted by Sir Samuel Plimsoll’s Merchant Shipping Act of 1876, up to this time, greed vs common sense ruled.
	www.pepysdiary.com /archive/1661/04/15/index.php (2156 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.
		This led to the Merchant Shipping Act of 1876 instructing the 'Plimsoll Line' to be painted on the hull of every ship to mark its load line and giving the Board of Trade greater inspection powers.
	www.about-bristol.co.uk /fam-11.asp (125 words)

	Eco-Plimsoll Line - World Federalists of Canada Vancouver Branch
		We all want happiness,and the scientific, ethical, philosophical, and religious lines scrambleacross the globe making for a fascinating multi-stranded mix.The political connections are deeply established as well, as we see from theGeneral Assembly, the Security Council, the International Court of Justice,and many other UN bodies.
		It was much better to havea measuring of a line for each boat, a drawing of the line, and a monitoringof its actual use boat by docking boat.
		To implement the Plimsoll line for the 21st cenutry, we have tochoose, then, between a multi-authority approach on the one hand, and on theother, a more inclusive approach, for example, the state based resourceapproach, the individual based approach, the resource over population basedapproach, the license based approach, or combinations of these elementsapproach.
	www.vcn.bc.ca /wfcvb/plimsoll.html (7555 words)

	About - PortCities Southampton
		The Plimsoll Project Partnership brings together institutions with exceptional and important collections on maritime history.
		Plimsoll is also named after Samuel Plimsoll, MP for Derby 1868-80.
		He proposed a mark - the load line - on every British ship to show the maximum amount of cargo that it could carry.
	www.plimsoll.org /About (204 words)

	Wordwizard Clubhouse - spencer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		PLIMSOLL SHOES or PlIMSOLLS took their name by a rather circuitous route from Britain’s Samuel Plimsoll (1824-1898) who was a man who pursued the cause of maritime reform and making the dangerous commercial maritime ships of his day (sometimes called ‘coffin ships) safer — kind of a Ralph Nader for shipping safety.
		This act was followed by others, including one known as the ‘Plimsoll line’ requiring that a load line be placed round a merchant vessel to indicate the limit to which a ship may be loaded.
		It derived its name from the similarity of the line formed where the rubber met the cloth about halfway up the shoe, to that of the Plimsoll line on the merchant ships.
	www.wordwizard.com /ch_forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=7188 (2082 words)

	Making and Using a Hydrometer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The accepted practice is to measure from the bottom of the meniscus in line with the liquid surface.
		When measuring the depth of the straw in the liquid measure from the bottom of the meniscus in line with the water surface.
		Samuel Plimsoll, born 1824 was a British member of parliament who introduced a bill to limit the amount of cargo that could be carried on ships.The American spelling is: Plimsol)
	www.southwest.com.au /~jfuller/liquids/hydrometers.htm (899 words)

	Waterline Summary
		1: a line corresponding to the surface of the water when the vessel is afloat on an even keel; often painted on the hull of a ship [syn: water line, water level]
		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 /Waterline (852 words)

	CLASSROOM@SEA PROJECT
		Samuel Plimsoll, a member of parliament from Derby, responded to concerns and demanded that ships ought to operate to safety limits determined by a ‘load line’ on the ship’s hull.
		A single load line would not be adequate because the upthrust from the water depends on its density.
		In the Plimsoll Line, TF stands for Tropical Fresh Water and WNA for Winter North Atlantic.
	www.soc.soton.ac.uk /gg/classroom@sea/resources/density.html (364 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.
	www.owad.de /check.php4?id=1217&choice=3&sid=4014 (484 words)

	Lindblad Expeditions: DER Detail (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Samuel Plimsoll, after whom plimsolls - the original deck shoes - were named, was known in his lifetime as “the sailor's friend.” Born in the English Atlantic seaport of Bristol in 1824, he moved to London as a young man to work in the coal trade.
		Plimsoll became highly concerned at the high accident rate on overloaded ships.
		What I now need is a photograph of the Plimsoll line on the National Geographic Endeavour to accompany this text.
	www.expeditions.com /dersearch/derdetail.asp?lr=1&id=8044 (294 words)

	plimsoll.html (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		So he got a law passed requiring danger lines to be painted on all cargo ships.
		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)

	Safe Water Line
		To observe the relationship between salinity, water temperature, and the Plimsoll lines on the ship do the following:
		The safe water line is a line on the side of a ship that shows the water level that the loaded ship can safely ride out storms without sinking.
		They show the safe water line for many kinds of water ranging from fresh tropical water to winter sea water.
	www.grow.arizona.edu /water/buoyancy/safewaterline.shtml (148 words)

	Plimsoll line (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		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)

	Oder-Neisse Line -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - Your gateway to all Britannica has to offer!
		The U.S. and Britain, dubious about Soviet domination of an enlarged Poland, protested the action but eventually agreed to the provisional border, which was not recognized by West Germany until it signed treaties with the Soviet Union and Poland in 1970.
		At the end of 1944 the Germans still held the western half of Poland, and their front was still 200 miles east of where it had been at the start of the war in 1939.
		The Germans had checked the Soviets' summer offensive and had established a firm line along the Narew and Vistula rivers southward to the Carpathians, and in October they repelled the Red Army's attempted...
	concise.britannica.com /ebc/article-9373888 (824 words)

	Halfbakery: Plimsoll line text
		Life would have been a lot easier for the characters in the film and a better outcome for all would have resulted if the boat had had some motivational text printed on its hull, just above the Plimsoll line (link), explaining the benefits of teamwork, organisation and recognising each team-member's different skills and abilities.
		If printed in small enough letters it wouldn't detract from the lines of the boat.
		These genitals may be highly pleasurable Note however that from a reproductive perspective better gamete choices are available; carefully research your childrens genes prior to conception.
	www.halfbakery.com /idea/Plimsoll_20line_20text (290 words)

	Archined: Archiprix International 2005 diary
		Adrian Stuart's group, Plimsoll Line, will look into the possibilities of new functions for the old cranes that are still lined up on the embankment, baring in mind the physical link the cranes form between the river and the city.
		The Plimsoll Line had to draw up a list of things they normally do on an average Saturday and locate these activities along the Clyde and Useless River started making a model after their walk.
		The Plimsoll Line group went up to the river to talk to a pilot and learn everything about the tide and current in the Clyde.
	www.archined.nl /news/4787.1.html (2257 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		This absolute optimal scale of load is recognized in the maritime institution of the Plimsoll line.
		When the watermark hits the Plimsoll line the boat is full, it has reached its safe carrying capacity.
		But eventually as the absolute load is increased, the watermark will reach the Plimsoll line even for a boat whose load is optimally allocated.
	www-rohan.sdsu.edu /~rbutler/envir8.htm (425 words)

	Leading from the Center \| Summer 2004
		Sometimes they are a painted line on the hull of the ship; at other times, a series of three lines painted on the side of the ship, one for saltwater, one for freshwater, and one for sailing within a harbor.
		When the "Plimsoll Line" disappears below the surface of the water, it is an indication that the vessel is carrying too much weight and is in danger of sinking.
		Unfortunately, people involved in modern-day administration are not equipped with "Plimsoll Lines." All excuses aside, it is undeniable that administrators in our high-pressure environment can and do regularly increase our load without appropriate attention to the danger of "sinking." Too many yesses, not enough no's.
	www.gbod.org /leadership/leading/summer04/spirituality.html (2062 words)

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