PROTECTION OF SEAMEN.
GERMAN LOAD-LINE RECOGNISED By Telegraph. — Press Association. — Copyright. (Received 15th December, 8 a.m.) LONDON, 14th December. The Berlin correspondent of the Standard reports that Britain has agreed to recognise the German load-line as equally effective with that of Britain. The load-line prescribed by tho Board of Trade was the result of Samuel Plimsolls agitation in Parliament, which resulted in the Merchant Shipping Act of 18/6. Prior to that many vessels were sent to sea dangerously overloaded, and at the same time heavily insured.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXVI, Issue 142, 15 December 1908, Page 7
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86PROTECTION OF SEAMEN. Evening Post, Volume LXXVI, Issue 142, 15 December 1908, Page 7
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