Reviews of The Plimsoll Sensation from the Shipping Press
“Jones has done Plimsoll a great service, with an elegantly written and
meticulously researched biography … with continuing contemporary
relevance”—NUMAST Telegraph
“An enormous amount of research has gone into this entrancing book,
resulting in a very readable, well balanced biography”—Capt A W Kinghorn,
Ships Monthly
“[Jones] is an enthusiastic champion and a diligent chronicler of
[Plimsoll’s] efforts”—Neville Smith, Lloyd’s List
“Nicolette Jones should be congratulated for dusting off Mr Plimsoll
… and [her] sympathetic and fair-minded interpretation has much to
commend it”—Professor Richard Gorski,
The Mariner’s Mirror
“a more compelling story than I had ever imagined with a message that is
relevant still today”—Dick Fredricks, Soundings: The Journal of the
American Salvage Association
“has the pace and style of a good novel…clearly a labour of love, and one of
which the author should be extremely proud”—Anne Hammick, Flying
Fish: The Journal of the Ocean Cruising Club
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