Coffin ship (insurance)
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coffin-ship-insurance-205-18259758
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Coffin ship (insurance)
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A coffin ship is any ship that has been overinsured and is therefore worth more to its owners sunk than afloat. These were hazardous places to work in the days before effective maritime safety regulation. They were generally eliminated in the 1870s with the success of reforms championed by British MP Samuel Plimsoll. Many overloaded overinsured ships in the days of wooden sailing ships were old ships riddled with wood rot and woodworm and shipworm, repainted and renamed and falsely stated to be
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffin_ship_(insurance)
date created:
2012-02-03T16:31:25Z
date modified:
2024-09-10T23:42:39Z
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