He famously called the MPs at the time, who initially rejected the bill to introduce the Plimsoll line on ships into law, as villains, before a year later public pressure saw the Plimsoll line ...

Early one morning last week, the dirty, dumpy Wiima, loaded to the Plimsoll line with her 7,000-ton cargo, dropped anchor 20 miles from Singapore. “I am waiting,” said her skipper, ...

Mr Plimsoll presented the idea of marking a line on the hull to indicate how deep in the water the vessel should sit. At the time, many MPs owned ships. "People didn't want red tape, they didn't ...

Changes to the plimsoll line may, by the way, have been a feature in one of the more famous wrecks of modern history, the Edmund Fitzgerald, sunk in November 1975 on Lake Superior and immortalised ...