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Are you sure E-S? I think the load-line regulations sprang (well emerged anyway) from Plimsoll following Lloyds in-house rules beginning in 1774 (courtesy of a clever young man writing for Turks and Caicos Marine Admin).
From the Plimsoll at least the rules took care not only of the loading of the intact ship but considered closings etc. which might allow water when otherwise loaded safely to the marks. Not too far distant from the prime tenet of Naval Architecture - If the hole is big enough the vessel will sink - although I suppose that is more to do with damage.
Of course this applied to British ships until the international convention (drowned foreigners were not to be considered - unless as cargo, of course) but the Dutch were great seafarers too. I wonder how they developed similar requirements as they must have (surely?)
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