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.)
File Name:
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.
File Names:
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.)
File Name:
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.)
File Name:
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)
File Name:
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)
File Name:
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)
File Name:
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
Normal Ave
Montclair, NJ, 07043
973-655-4076