What is recorded here

This blue commemorative plaque records: Samuel Plimsoll "The Sailors' Friend" While staying in a house on this site he was inspired to invent the Plimsoll Line a safety mark for loading ships in 1876 Recorded plaque organisation: Redcar & Cleveland Borough Council.

Samuel Plimsoll was a social reformer who campaigned for safer working conditions for sailors; he is best remembered for introducing the Plimsoll line, a marking on ships' hulls indicating the safe limits of cargo loading to prevent overloading and sinking.

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