THE PLIMSOLL SENSATION: The Great Campaign to Save Lives at Sea.
Pp. xvi+396(last blank), frontispiece, plus 8 plates, text illustrations, printed endpapers, appendix, chronology, notes, bibliography, index; med. 8vo; black boards, spine lettered in silver; dust wrapper; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on verso of upper free endpaper, edges of leaves slightly foxed; Little, Brown, London, 2006. First edition. *Biography of Samuel Plimsoll (1824-1898), the British politician whose reform campaign led to the introduction in 1876 of the 'Plimsoll line'. Marked on the hull of every cargo ship to show the level of maximum submergence, the line resulted in a reduction of ship sinkings, saving the lives of countless seafarers. Item #179514
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