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Shipowners overloading blamed as Plimsoll alert rises
Parliament debates time waste and dockyard influences while reformers push for safer ships. Plimsoll is praised for exposing overloading and neglects in maritime safety, and royal commissions may follow. Obituaries note journalists Skeen Graves Hannay Noel Sargood and their legacies.
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Liament
Otway
Exchequer
Ballantine
James Elphinstone
Plimsoll
Derby
Board of Trade
America
England
Bridlington
Scarborough
Whitby
Pickering
Hull
Newcastle
Sunderland
Mr. Plimsoll
Burns
Bradlaugh
F. J. Sargood
Croydon
London
Melbourne
Sargood, Son, and Co
Dunedin
New Zealand
Legislative Assembly of
Victoria
Prahran
Croydon Advertiser
Sargood
Colonial Senate
Legislative Assembly
Legislative Council
Lords of
Hugh Childers
James McCulloch
Napoleon III
Henry Thompson
Reedham