The Coffin-Ships Size:XS: 20 x 15cm 8th March 1976

8th March 1976

near the St Paul's Cathedral end of Ludgate Hill

The double winning Tottenham Hotspur Football Club are pictured at Cheshunt

Edmurd Burke walking towards the door of the Crown and Anchor Tavern

The Coffin-Ships Size:XS: 20 x 15cm 8th March 1976'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