The Coffin-Ships Size:XS: 20 x 15cm 18th May 1982

18th May 1982

The double winning Tottenham Hotspur Football Club are pictured at Cheshunt

Austin Seven Countryman

College Street

Gainsborough

The Coffin-Ships Size:XS: 20 x 15cm 18th May 1982'The Coffin Ships', 1873. Jack Tar is embraced by his lover as he prepares to board his ship. This relates to recent agitation on the part of Samuel Plimsoll for a Royal Commission into the condition of merchant shipping. Plimsoll presented figures to show that, of the 2,700 losses at sea each year, more than 2,000 were due to practices of overloading ships and other poor practices. He also contended that many ships were sent to sea in an unworthy