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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXXII, Issue 59, 7 May 1924, Page 8

TJie centenary of the birth of Samuel Pljmsoll—“the sapors’ friend” —took place on lOth February. Very ■few reformers have waged a harder fight than did this- Bristol man against the abuses practised by unscrupulous shipowners. To-day “coffin-ships” are stern realities. He had hig adversities, which brought out the defects in his character, but the. Merchant Shipping Act crowned his efforts. The “Plimsoll” mark on every British ship—the circle with a horiontal line through the centre to indicate the depth to which she may he loaded—is a permanent memorial to his fame.