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Bus/Financial - Economics / Industry anlysis, company valuation | | English term or phrase: Plimsoll load line mark | The purpose of a load line is to ensure that a ship has sufficient freeboard and thus sufficient reserve buoyancy. The freeboard on commercial vessels is measured between the uppermost continuous deck and the waterline and this must not be less than the freeboard marked on the Load Line Certificate issued to that ship. All commercial ships, other than in exceptional circumstances, have a load line symbol painted amidships on each side of the ship and this symbol must also be permanently marked so that if the paint wears off it can still be seen. The load line makes it easy for anyone to see whether a ship has been overloaded.
This symbol, also called an international load line or Plimsoll line, indicates the maximum safe draft, and therefore the minimum freeboard for the vessel in various operating conditions.
In the 1860s, due to the increasing losses of ships due to overloading a British MP, Samuel Plimsoll, took up the load line cause. A Royal commission on unseaworthy ships was set up in 1872 and finally in 1876 the United Kingdom Merchant Shipping Act made the load line mark compulsory although the positioning of the mark was not fixed by law until 1894. In 1906, laws were passed requiring foreign ships visiting British ports to be marked with a load line. However it was not until 1930 (The 1930 Load Line Convention) that there was international agreement for universal application of load line regulations.
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| | علامة خطوط بليمسول لتحديد مستوى التحميل المأمون | Explanation:
يمكن أن تقول فقط علامة خطوط بليمسول وهي معروفة في مجال النقل البحري
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2 hrs confidence:  peer agreement (net): +2 | plimsoll load line mark خط علامة بلمسول للتحميل
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10 hrs confidence: | plimsoll load line mark علامة بيلمسول لبيان خط غمر المياه للسفينة تبعا لحمولتها
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The Plimsoll line is the mark on the hull of a ship that shows where the waterline is when the ship is loaded to full capacity according to the condition of the water at the point of loading.
Plimsoll lineThe official name is the International Load Line, since the Plimsoll line is an international load limit standard. It was named after Samuel Plimsoll, who instigated the passage of the Merchant Shipping Act of 1875, which established the marking of a load line on every cargo ship. This was to prevent the practice of launching deliberately overloaded coffin ships, which were intended to sink so that the owner could collect the insurance money.
The letters on the load line have the following meanings:
Plimsoll line
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The Plimsoll line is the mark on the hull of a ship that shows where the waterline is when the ship is loaded to full capacity according to the condition of the water at the point of loading.
Plimsoll lineThe official name is the International Load Line, since the Plimsoll line is an international load limit standard. It was named after Samuel Plimsoll, who instigated the passage of the Merchant Shipping Act of 1875, which established the marking of a load line on every cargo ship. This was to prevent the practice of launching deliberately overloaded coffin ships, which were intended to sink so that the owner could collect the insurance money.
The letters on the load line have the following meanings:
TF - Tropical Fresh Water
F - Fresh Water
T - Tropical Sea Water
S - Summer Sea Water
W - Winter Sea Water
WNA - Winter North Atlantic
The Plimsoll shoe is named for the shoe's horizontal lines, which resemble the Plimsoll line
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Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plimsoll_line
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