Traditional Longshore Ship Loading and Unloading Page

List of illustrations:

Banana Conveyors at the Port of Mobile, Alabama, 1938.  These conveyers could unload 2000 bunches per hour from the Banana Boats.  (US Army Corps of Engineers.)

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Banana Conveyors 1938.jpg

Cargo hoist diagrams for unloading and loading ships at pierside warehouses.  This technique was used by longshoremen before containerization.  These illustrations date to 1924 and were prepared by the US Army Corps of Engineers.

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cargo hoist operation 1924.jpg
cargo hoist operation 1924 b.jpg

The street congestion at Manhattan's Chelsea Piers in 1948.  Once the ships were unloaded the freight was moved onto trucks.  It seems as if there was no provision made for loading trucks without blocking the street.
(Dun and Bradstreet.)

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Chelsea Piers street side 1948.jpg

The Erie Railroad operated this rotary coal dumper in Edgewater, New Jersey.  This photograph dates from 1928.  
(New Jersey Chamber of Commerce.)

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Erie coal dumper Edgewater NJ.jpg

Unloading lumber from ships to railroad cars in the Port of Mobile, Alabama, in 1938.  (US Army Corps of Engineers)

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lumber_mobile_al_1938.jpg

A tomato boat on the Cohansey River in southern New Jersey circa 1928.  These boats brought tomatoes to the Campbell's soup plant in Camden.
(New Jersey Chamber of Commerce)

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Tomato Boat 1928.jpg

The West Shore Railroad's piers at Weehawken, New Jersey.  Freight was transferred from railroad to ship at this facility.  Circa 1928. (New Jersey Chamber of Commerce)

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West Shore Railroad Weehawken 1928.jpg





This information posted by:

Kevin Olsen
Instrumentation Specialist
Chemistry and Biochemistry Support Staff
Room 359 Richardson Hall
Montclair State University
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