DroppieAug 25, 2025
I have absolutely no comment at all about a further #PlimsollLine recalibration. 🤐
Julie HowlinFeb 10, 2025

The Plimsoll line is a reference mark on a ship's hull to indicate the maximum depth to which the vessel may be safely immersed when loaded with cargo. 10 things you might not know about it.

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10 February: Plimsoll Day

Today is Plimsoll Day, which commemorates the birth in 1825 Samuel Plimsoll, politician and social reformer, best known for devising the Pli...

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Show threadPeter BrownJan 31, 2025
If #Bristol is looking for a hero to replace the incorrigible slave owner #Colston, they could do worse than #Plimsoll. The line he invented is on every cargo ship in the world. He was even used as figurehead by the Aberdeen and White Star Line as a bowsprit on their revolutionary iron clipper the Samuel Plimsoll.
Photos from the Shipwrecks Museum in #fremantle on the treacherous coast of Western Australia.
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