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

by Redcar & Cleveland Borough Council

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Samuel Plimsoll
(1824-1898) inventor of the Uniform Loading Line (The Plimsoll Line)