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Read blogs providing an update on our projects and resources.

Plimsoll Line
The Plimsoll line
Published: 15 Apr 20

Find out about freeboard, load lines and reserve buoyancy

Education
Louise Sanger
Ship types, design and construction
RNLI listing
RNLI
Published: 12 Sep 19

Discover our work with the RNLI, committing over £2 million to the training of crew members since 2007

Guest blog
Ship types, design and construction
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First and Famous: Dunedin
Published: 26 Jun 19

Learn more about the Dunedin, one of the first refrigerated ships and part of our First and Famous collection.

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First and Famous
Max Wilson
Ship types, design and construction
thermopylae
First and Famous: Thermopylae
Published: 27 Jul 18

A short blog from Summer Intern Dermot Fowler, about the historic ship Thermopylae.

Blog
Dermot Fowler
First and Famous
Ship types, design and construction
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First and Famous: Fullagar
Published: 17 Apr 18

We're taking an in depth look at Lloyd's Register's 'First and Famous' ships. These ships are significant in terms of design, technological advances, historic importance, or just ships everyone has heard of that we've classed. This post features the history of the Fullagar, the world's first fully welded ocean-going ship.

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First and Famous
Max Wilson
Ship types, design and construction
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First and Famous: Lenin ex St. Alexandre Nevsky
Published: 10 Apr 18

We're taking an in depth look at LR's 'First and Famous' ships. These ships are significant in terms of design, technological advances, historic importance, or just ships everyone has heard of that we've classed. This post features the history of the Russian icebreaker Lenin ex St. Alexandre Nevsky an important "workhorse of the ocean".

Barbara Jones
Blog
First and Famous
Ship types, design and construction
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First and Famous: Two Ships Called Sirius
Published: 03 Apr 18

We're taking an in depth look at LR's 'First and Famous' ships. These ships are significant in terms of design, technological advances, historic importance, or just ships everyone has heard of that we've classed. This week we're looking at the first iron vessel classed by Lloyd's Register, the story of another ship called Sirius and a maritime hero forgotten to history.

Blog
Charlotte Ward
First and Famous
Ship types, design and construction
Sarah Clifford Smith
Sarah Clifford Smith's Robert Miller ship model
Published: 08 Aug 17

Guest blog
Ship types, design and construction