Plimsoll Day
Pay tribute today to Samuel Plimsoll, a British politician who saved countless lives of British seamen in the mid-1800s. Plimsoll convinced the House of Commons to put an end to the practice of overloading English ships.

photo credit: wikipedia – Samuel Plimsoll

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