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Hi Steve.
A friend that I work with gave me your name, and said that you may be able to help me. I have been trying to find out what this medallion is. However, I have had no luck. The poeple that I have talked to do not know what it is. Any help would be appreciated.
Thank you
K. Kendall
 
What an interesting find, Kendall. From the link below
>>>>Description:
Medal commemorating Samuel Plimsoll (1824-189:geek: and the coffin-ships. Obverse: Bust of S. Plimsoll (left) beard, open coat. Legend: 'S. PLIMSOLL', 'HOUSE OF COMMONS 22 JULY1875 LONDON.' Reverse: Port broadside view of a three-masted ship, partially dismasted, foundering. Exergue: 'COFFIN SHIP'. It was due to Samuel Plimsoll's services in the Parliament that the famous load-line recording his name was established. Fitted with a suspension loop.
 
>>>Samuel Plimsoll was born in Bristol. He worked as a clerk and then a Manager at a Yorkshire brewery. In 1854 he set up in London as a coal merchant. His business failed and Plimsoll learned what poverty was like. This made him help the poor when his business affairs improved. A great big scandal of the time was that of the ''Coffin ships''. Their ships were very unseaworthy but the people who owned them told the insurance companies that they were very good and they could sail brillantly but really they were hoping they would sink, so they would get lots of money even though the poor sailors would drown. In 1868 Samuel Pimsoll become a Member of Parliment for Derby and began to speak about the subject. He made Parliment aware of it and by 1872 he wrote a leafleat called "Our Seamen," Further work by Samuel Pimsoll led on in 1876 to pass the Merchant Shipping Act, which stopped overloaded ships from leaving port. The Pimsoll mark which is painted on the side to stop overloading. The sea must not go higher than this mark. He later went on to write a leaflet on cattle ships telling about the cruelty to animals on the ships sailing overseas. (This is a subject that has been back in the news again here recently.)
 
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