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Roger Head attended the Samuel Plimsoll memorial service yesterday and flew the PWSTS standard.

Below are two photographs that Roger has sent from his phone:

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Samuel Plimsoll (10 February 1824 3 June 1898) was a British politician and social reformer, now best remembered for having devised the Plimsoll line (a line on a ship's hull indicating the maximum safe draft, and therefore the minimum freeboard for the vessel in various operating conditions).

Early life Samuel Plimsoll was born in Bristol and soon moved to Whiteley Wood Hall, Sheffield, also spending part of his childhood in Penrith, Cumberland. Leaving school at an early age, he became a clerk at Rawson's Brewery, and rose to be manager.

In 1853 he attempted to become a coal merchant in London. He failed and was reduced to destitution. He himself told how for a time he lived in a common lodging for seven shillings and two pence a week.

Through this experience, he learnt to sympathise with the struggles of the poor, and when his good fortune returned, he resolved to devote his time to improving their condition.

His efforts were directed especially against what were known as "coffin ships": unseaworthy and overloaded vessels, often heavily insured, in which unscrupulous owners risked the lives of their crews.

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Roger says - I hope to attend the Channel Dash memorial on Tuesday at Ramsgate harbour and Ann Grays funeral on Wednesday in Clacton this week.



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