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  1. If #Bristol is looking for a hero to replace the incorrigible slave owner #Colston, they could do worse than #Plimsoll. The line he invented is on every cargo ship in the world. He was even used as figurehead by the Aberdeen and White Star Line as a bowsprit on their revolutionary iron clipper the Samuel Plimsoll.
    Photos from the Shipwrecks Museum in #fremantle on the treacherous coast of Western Australia.
    #PlimsollLine
    #SamuelPlimsoll

  2. If #Bristol is looking for a hero to replace the incorrigible slave owner #Colston, they could do worse than #Plimsoll. The line he invented is on every cargo ship in the world. He was even used as figurehead by the Aberdeen and White Star Line as a bowsprit on their revolutionary iron clipper the Samuel Plimsoll.
    Photos from the Shipwrecks Museum in #fremantle on the treacherous coast of Western Australia.
    #PlimsollLine
    #SamuelPlimsoll

  3. If #Bristol is looking for a hero to replace the incorrigible slave owner #Colston, they could do worse than #Plimsoll. The line he invented is on every cargo ship in the world. He was even used as figurehead by the Aberdeen and White Star Line as a bowsprit on their revolutionary iron clipper the Samuel Plimsoll.
    Photos from the Shipwrecks Museum in #fremantle on the treacherous coast of Western Australia.
    #PlimsollLine
    #SamuelPlimsoll

  4. If #Bristol is looking for a hero to replace the incorrigible slave owner #Colston, they could do worse than #Plimsoll. The line he invented is on every cargo ship in the world. He was even used as figurehead by the Aberdeen and White Star Line as a bowsprit on their revolutionary iron clipper the Samuel Plimsoll.
    Photos from the Shipwrecks Museum in #fremantle on the treacherous coast of Western Australia.
    #PlimsollLine
    #SamuelPlimsoll

  5. If #Bristol is looking for a hero to replace the incorrigible slave owner #Colston, they could do worse than #Plimsoll. The line he invented is on every cargo ship in the world. He was even used as figurehead by the Aberdeen and White Star Line as a bowsprit on their revolutionary iron clipper the Samuel Plimsoll.
    Photos from the Shipwrecks Museum in #fremantle on the treacherous coast of Western Australia.
    #PlimsollLine
    #SamuelPlimsoll

  6. "Mama, why is he lying down?"
    "Well he never really deserved to be standing, he was a rich, bad man who made his money moving people around the world where they were forced to be slaves."

    en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statue

    bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bris

    #BlackLivesMatter #BLM #Bristol #Colston