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This 400 foot floating dock, built by Swan Hunter and Wigham Richardson, left the firms Wallsend shipyard for Apapa. The 4, 000 ton dock, for the Nigerian Port Authority
Dockers unloading at North Shields commission Quay from the Norwegian mail boat in 1954
General view of the big Singapore floating dock lying in the River tyne. It has been built th Swan, Hunter and Wiogham Richardson, Ltd. in 1928
The 400 foot floating dock for the Nigerian Port Authority left Swan Hunter and Wigham Richardsons Wallsend shipyard for Apapa in 1961
Their strike over, shipyard men return to work at Wallsend Shipyard in 1957
Mr. Jack Jones (extreme left - glasses) the transport union chief and members of the delegation arriving at the department of employment and productivity to see Mr
About 63 ships remain idle on London docks because the dockers are out in an unofficial strike over the employment of part time labour in the port in 1961
Back to work at the London Docks after the two week official nationwide dock strike by 47, 000 in 1970
Shipyard workers finished for the night after their shift in 1957
The 13, 000 miles ahead the floating dock built at Wallsend for New Zealand is seen gliding down to Tyne at the start of its record journey in 1931
Tees Dock Yard in Middlesbrough in 1994
The huge floating dock built at the Furness Shipbuilding Companys Haverton Hill yard for a Swedish firm, leaving the Tees on the first stage of its long tow to Stockhollm in 1946
A giant Grain Unloader at Wallsend slipway in 1974
The idle cranes at eh King George V Dock in London, the first day of the National Dock Strike which has paralysed Britains ports in July 1970
This huge floating dock slid almost unnotices into the Tyne. It was built by Swan Hunter and Wigham Richardsons Wallsend in 1961 and will be towed to Apapa in Nigeria in two months time
The huge Singapore Dock, the first section of which will leave the River Tyne to be towed the 8, 500 miles to its base in 1928
A dry dock at Tees Dock Yard in Middlesbrough in 1994
The Carlide from Norway getting unloaded from the "Pallas"in the TyneThe Carlide from Norway getting unloaded from the " Pallas" in the Tyne. Even if the dock strike comes it looks as though this boat will be unloaded on time in 1970
Dockers at North Shields suspended their strike at 8 a. mDockers at North Shields suspended their strike at 8 a.m. today to unload a massive cargo of fish from the Ranger Ajax, a freezer trawler in July 1970
A 110 ton part of a floating crane lifeted by a floating crane into a Canadian bound ship in 1977
Nissan car chiefs smashed the ports blockade by sailing a £; 20m consignment of new vehicles into the Tyne in 1989
The first section of the Singapore floating dock leaving Wallsend on the first stage of its long journey to the Far East in 1928
It was business as usual at the Albert Edwar Dock, North Shields, in spite of the national dock strike. The strike was suspended to save 180 tons of fish in the holds of the freezer trawler Ranger
A ship being built in dry dock at Tees Dock Yard in Middlesbrough in 1995
A child watches the boats unloaded in Dacca, Bangladesh. February 1961 l
The River Thames and the pool of London seen from the road deck of Tower Bridge August 1939
The Ship Gothic carrying the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh, entering Padro Migual Locks, Panama. The ship is towed onto the lock by electric tractors known as mules
The grain ship Killoran at Tyne Dock on the River Tyne
The three-masted German barquentine Nauschutz lying at Newcastle Quayside discharging her cargo of china clay
The Ship Gothic berthed on a North East River
The 290 tons gross German three masted auxiliary schooner ship Anne Marie loading coal at Sunderland bound for Sweden
The veteran Norwegian ship Jupiter coming alongside the River Tyne Commission Quay, North Shields
The new ship liner Leda at the Tyne Commission Quay on the River Tyne at North Shields
Royal Docks London January 1969 A driver with a fork lift truck moves a wooden crate on the quayside next to a cargo ship called the ALARIC
The S. S. Aragon at Victoria docks in London. 12th June 1962The S.S. Aragon at Victoria docks in London. 12th June 1962
The cable ship Edward Wilshaw which was officially handed over at Newcastle Quayside by shipbuilders Swan Hunter and Wigham Richardson to Cable and Wireless Limited
The four-masted barquentine sailing ship Helga iloading coal at Tyne Docks, River Tyne
The sailing ship windjammer Grace Harwar in dry-dock at South Bank, River Tyne
The sailing ship Agenia II. Van Groningen now in the River Tyne with a cargo of granite blocks for the new Tyne Bridge
The ship Bamora is seen loading her maiden voyage cargo before she sets out to the wide open sea in No 7 Quay at Middlesbrough Docks
These horses are led away to a Belgian slaughter horse. January 1960
The Isle of Man steamer Ben-My-Chree at Liverpool landing stage disgorging thousands of holiday-makers returning from the TT races week in the island
Half day Strike at the Docks. Picture shows Idle Ships and Cranes at the Royal Group of Docks. March 1969
The QE2 Returns. The QE2 returned to Southampton after a fantastically successful round-the-world crise. In the 92 days since she left on January 4 she has visited 24 ports in 19 countries
German prisoners of war boarding a ship at Antwerp docks for transportation to England. Circa September 1914
Aerial photgraph taken by an RAF reconnaisance aircraft, the day before the raid by British Royal Navy and Army commando units on the Nazi held docks at St Nazaire in occupied Northern France
The Fall of Antwerp October 1914 There was a rush of refugees from Antwerp for Ostend, Holland and England, and all the boats that left the city were crowded
The rush of civilians to the quay at Antwerp to catch one of the boats evacuating the city. They came on foot, taxicab, carts and in traps
