The Coffin-Ships Size:XS: 20 x 15cm near the St Paul's Cathedral

near the St Paul's Cathedral end of Ludgate Hill

Interior view of Somerset House showing an exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts in 1787

John Cleese upon his election as Rector to St Andrews University

View of the Woolpack Tavern

8th March 1976

The Coffin-Ships Size:XS: 20 x 15cm near the St Paul's Cathedral'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