The Coffin-Ships mb-height 5405 View of Wood Street looking

View of Wood Street looking north to Gresham Street

new tenants at the Mansion House'

standing together

The image at the top of the sheet shows the hotel

The Coffin-Ships mb-height 5405 View of Wood Street looking'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