The Plimsoll Sensation: The Great Campaign to Save Lives at Sea
May 2013 · Hachette UK
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The story of a Victorian philanthropist who reformed shipping laws, saved thousands of sailors' lives and became a national hero
'A story of ambition, treachery, libel, political intrigue and cold-blooded murder on a mass scale' Herald
'Nicolette Jones charts Plimsoll's course with skill, insight and elegance' Sunday Telegraph
'Splendid and meticulously researched' Guardian
In the second half of the nineteenth century, an astonishing campaign stirred a nation to save the lives of the hundreds of British sailors who were drowning unnecessarily every year. Overladen and ill-repaired ships set sail, their doomed crews sacrificed while mercenary shipowners profited from the insurance. Samuel Plimsoll blew the whistle on these scandalous practices, devoting his life to a campaign for maritime reform. Plimsoll caught the public imagination: under his banner working men and women stood side by side with enlightened aristocrats and industrialists, their clamour almost toppling a prime minister.
'A story of ambition, treachery, libel, political intrigue and cold-blooded murder on a mass scale' Herald
'Nicolette Jones charts Plimsoll's course with skill, insight and elegance' Sunday Telegraph
'Splendid and meticulously researched' Guardian
In the second half of the nineteenth century, an astonishing campaign stirred a nation to save the lives of the hundreds of British sailors who were drowning unnecessarily every year. Overladen and ill-repaired ships set sail, their doomed crews sacrificed while mercenary shipowners profited from the insurance. Samuel Plimsoll blew the whistle on these scandalous practices, devoting his life to a campaign for maritime reform. Plimsoll caught the public imagination: under his banner working men and women stood side by side with enlightened aristocrats and industrialists, their clamour almost toppling a prime minister.
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Nicolette Jones is a writer, journalist, literary critic and broadcaster. Her book The Plimsoll Sensation was a Radio 4 Book of the Week and won two maritime literature prizes. Her other books include The American Art Tapes: Voices of Twentieth-Century Art. She is the long-standing children's books reviewer of the Sunday Times and was a nominee for the Eleanor Farjeon Award for outstanding service to the world of children's books. In 2022, she was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
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