IN LONDON DOCKS
152 VESSELS FROM 100 PORTS. fn I ...ii'Tdocxs on December*3o i.i,war a tecord number of ships—--152,. wearing between them no less than 18 different national flags and discharging from or loading to over 100 different ports. The initial letter? of the ships’ names included the whole alphabet excepting the letters X and Z. The largest ship in the Port of London on that day was P. and O. liner Strathallan, 23,700 tons, loading in Tilbury Docks for Australia: at the other end of the scale was the little Buoyant. 300 tons, loading coastwise in the Royal Docks.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 January 1939, Page 8
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100IN LONDON DOCKS Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 January 1939, Page 8
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