The London

The London

The London was an emigrant ship sailing from Britain to Australia in January 1866. She carried 220 passengers and a crew of 69, plus a great deal of deck cargo, altogether making the ship far too overloaded and unseaworthy.

By a story later highly publicised, when she was en route down the Thames, a seaman seeing her pass Purfleet said, "It'll be her last voyage…she is too low down in the water, she'll never rise to a stiff sea."

This proved all too accurate. The "London" sank in the Bay of Biscay, and there were only 19 survivors.

The disaster of The "London" aroused increased attention in Britain to the dangerous condition of the coffin ships, overloaded by unscrupulous ship owners, and the publicity had a major role in Samuel Plimsoll's campaign to reform shipping so as to prevent further such disasters.

The disaster of the "London" is extensively discussed in Nicolette Jones's "The Plimsoll Sensation", a 2006 biography of Plimsoll. (See [http://bookwormonthenet.blogspot.com/2006_07_02_archive.html] ).

ee also

* Plimsoll line

External links

* [http://bookwormonthenet.blogspot.com/2006_07_02_archive.html Review of "The Plimsoll Sensation" in Bookworm on the Net, July 2, 2006]


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