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East India Docks 1930s

Found at FB in a group abt. old London

#east india docks #thames #london docks #1930s

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moody old photo from a chilly day in the port of Frederikshavn. One can see an icecovered quay and a steam powered tug is making it's way, running. Taken in the winter of 1940 by Herluf W Jensen.

Found at FB; group called Frederikshavn og omegn.

#denmark #tug #frederikshavn #jutland #kattegat #ice winter

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A smoggy afternoon on the Thames 1938, looking West towards Tower Bridge.

Found at FB / a group abt. old London.

#river thames #london #docklands #steamboats #30s

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The busy inner port of Copenhagen in the late 20s / early 30s. The name of the location is Kvæsthusbroen" meaning the quay of the "injury-house" it being an old and apropriate name for a hospital getting it's supply of patients from the Navy and (I imagine) merchant Navy.

Found at FB ( a group with an interest of vintage Copenhagen).

#copenhagen #steamer #cargo #barrels on the quay #1920s #denmark

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Bird's perspective of the Canada Dock 1966. It's on River Mersey, England, and part of the Port of Liverpool... situated in the northern dock system in Kirkdale.

Found on FB.

#canada dock #mersey river #liverpool #port of liverpool #uk #1960s

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The Copenhagen Free harbour in the 30s. In 1929 General Motors decided to build an assembling factory in Copenhagen. GM car parts were sent here and assembled.

The photo belongs to Københavns stadsarkiv.

#free port #denmark #gm #general motors #car import

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Inner port of Copenhagen 1940s; boxes of herrings are loaded for sale. The herring catch was the origininal reason for founding the city abt 850 years ago. Copenhagen started as a fishing village.

#copenhagen #fish for sale #fishing boat #40s #denmark

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Copenhagen 1910. We're facing North, looking at Langebro (=Long Bridge) and some freight activity at Islands Brygge (= the Iceland quays)

found at FB / a group with old Copenhagen photos.

#copenhagen #port of copenhagen #1910 #denmark

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London dockers having a moment of relax. - abt. 1960. All stout lads.

© Henry Grant Collection/Museum of London

#dockers #longshoremen #london docks #1960

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IJN destroyer Harutsuki bridge tower

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1956; Cape Town docks scene by Hilton T

#cape town #quays #docks #port #loading #1956 #south africa

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The handsome (British) coaster or trawler Swallow, identification code H97. Does anyone know what homeport that refers to? Hull perhaps?

The picture was forund at pinterest. Looks like 1920s.

#trawler #coaster #steam ship #steamer #swallow H 93

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Not sure about this one/ just thinking aloud: A veteran bosun is overseing the loading of the cargo in the hold, giving hand signals to the men in the hold - and perhaps to the guy operating the crane.

This photo feels like the 70s, but it's a guess. Found it at pinterest.

#bosun #boatswain #loading the cargo #cargo hold

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SHIPS OF THE HOME FLEET GUARDING THE NORTHERN TRADE ROUTES. 26 TO 29 MAY 1942, ON BOARD THE DESTROYER HMS WHEATLAND IN ICELANDIC WATERS AND EN ROUTE TO SCAPA. A view through the passage door as HMS WHEATLAND approaches Iceland. Creator: Ware, C J (Lt). Source: © IWM (A 8924)

#ww2 #home fleet #iceland #hms wheatland #destroyer

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Thanks to iancoombe.tripod.com. It's supposed to show a moored ship of the Union Castle Line. Don't know any year, but it feels like the 40s.... in a British port. Anyone recognizes the cranes?

#Union Castle Line #moored up ship #port

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An albatros for company. Can't really recall where I found this photo; somewhere in FB.

https://astonishinglegends.com/ say: According to lore, Albatrosses are revered because these birds are believed to be the souls of dead sailors. Seeing one flying above your ship, or even near your ship for a prolonged amount of time, was believed to be a symbol of a successful and safe voyage. When sailors came across one, they would offer it food or other gifts for its continued blessing. Killing one will bring bad luck.

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, in which a ‘Wedding-Guest’ tells of his harrowing journey and the death of an Albatross. In the beginning, the Albatross is a symbol of hope and when the men give it food it even helps guide the ship around a tricky ice field. However, when fog envelops the ship our harried narrator accidentally shoots and kills the Albatross...and the ship becomes trapped and the crew soon grows despondent at the doom that surrounds them (I won’t spoil the whole thing - you have to go read it!)

In a way, it is likely that sailors saw the killing of the Albatross as the killing of another sailor or, in some way, disrupting the natural ways of the ocean. By not respecting a bird capable of so much those who struck it down were punished. Perhaps the lore rose up to guard against the senseless killing of the animals, or, perhaps, sailors really did see something strange and special in the black eyes of the Albatross.

#albatros #dead sailors' soul #myth of the albatros

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Willemshaven in Holland (not Germany as I first thought) abt. 1890 - 1900 (estimated). Practical rails for the loading.

Postcard / Found in a FB group

#willemshaven #Frisian #1890s #holland #nederland