He used stevedores working the docks in Baltimore to infect horses with glanders while they were waiting to be shipped to Britain.

The Trades Disputes Act 1927 was repealed, and a Dock Labour Scheme was introduced in 1947 to put an end to the casual system of hiring labour in the docks, Wages for members of the police force were significantly increased.

The Victorian docks were mostly further east, comprising the Royal Victoria ( 1855 ), Millwall ( 1868 ) and Royal Albert ( 1880 ).

Wet docks were where ships were laid up at anchor and loaded or unloaded.

Dry docks, which were far smaller, took individual ships for repairing.

The docks required an army of workers, chiefly lightermen ( who carried loads between ships and quays aboard small barges called lighters ) and quayside workers, who dealt with the goods once they were ashore.

The docks were originally built and managed by a number of competing private companies.

From 1909, they were managed by the Port of London Authority, or PLA, which amalgamated the companies in a bid to make the docks more efficient and improve labour relations.

London's docks were unable to accommodate the much larger vessels needed by containerization and the shipping industry moved to deep-water ports such as Tilbury and Felixstowe.

Between 1960 and 1980, all of London's docks were closed, leaving around eight square miles ( 21 km² ) of derelict land in East London.

Efforts to redevelop the docks began almost as soon as they were closed, although it took a decade for most plans to move beyond the drawing board and another decade for redevelopment to take full effect.

Till the end of 1930 docks, piers, breakwaters and many auxiliary and industrial installations were constructed ( such as depots, trans-shipment equipment, and a rice processing factory ) or started ( such as a large cold store ).

Irish newcomers were sometimes uneducated and often found themselves competing with Americans for manual labour jobs or, in the 1860s, being recruited from the docks by the U. S. Army to serve in the American Civil War and afterward to build the Union Pacific Railroad.

In 1910 they were transferred from Kiel to Wilhelmshaven, where two new large docks had been completed and more were under construction.

Her treasury was nearly empty, her docks were depleted, and the flower of her youth was dead or imprisoned in a foreign land.

These were the men who worked on London docks, " whipping " in baskets from ships to barges or wharves all incoming coal from the sea.

She visited troops, hospitals, factories, and parts of Britain that were targeted by the German Luftwaffe, in particular the East End, near London's docks.

Among the changes that Severus introduced were to create a magnificent new forum and to rebuild the docks.

Slaves were imported from Africa to Richmond's Manchester docks, and were bought and sold at the same market.

The roads were cleaned, the animals were removed from the centre, roads were fixed, trees were planted and docks were constructed for the loading and unloading of those ships that were anchored off-shore.

The land includes Ferry Road, a rail line, and the docks serving current cross-bay rail barge traffic of Bay Coast Railroad, formerly the Eastern Shore Railroad, to Cape Charles, Virginia.

Sir John Hawkshaw also had a wide experience in constructing harbours ( e. g. Holyhead ) and docks ( e. g. Penarth, the Albert Dock at Hull, and South Dock ( formerly the City Canal ) of the West India Docks in London ), in river-engineering, in drainage and sewerage, in water-supply, etc.

Trams in Chennai ( formerly Madras ) were operated between the docks and the inland areas, carrying goods and passengers.

It was created in 1985 by the LDDC, using spoil ( waste material and rubble ) from the works to fill and landscape the areas formerly occupied by commercial docks.

The area extends from the docks in the east, to Azad Maidan in the west ; Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus ( formerly Victoria Terminus ) in the north to Kala Ghoda in the south.

They were located on the south side near the south docks, near present-day Warren Court ( formerly known as Warren Street ).

Mountbatten, who was promoted to the acting rank of vice-admiral in March 1942, was in large part responsible for the planning and organisation of The Raid at St. Nazaire in mid 1942, an operation resulting in the disuse of one of the most heavily defended docks in Nazi-occupied France until well after war's end, the ramifications of which greatly contributed to allied supremacy in the Battle of the Atlantic.

The " Sea Bridge " ferry, which takes cars ( and also pedestrians ), docks in the northwest part of Nevis at Cades Bay, and runs between there and Major's Bay on St. Kitts.

Although the docks were closed and largely filled in during the 1980s, and have now been replaced by modern housing and commercial facilities, Rotherhithe is still given a large part of its character by its former maritime heritage.

An eastern part, which became in effect an island when the docks were in use and locks open, is called " Downtown ".

It operated a network of road motor ( bus ) routes, was a part of the Railway Air Services, and owned ships, docks and hotels.

In the afternoon, re-enactors, playing the part of angry citizens and Continental Soldiers, march to the docks where redcoats ( played by members of the Maryland Loyalist Battalion ) defend the a ship for a short skirmish, then retire.

The docks form part of the Port of Bristol and were operated by the Port of Bristol Authority, part of Bristol City Council, until 1991 when the council granted a 150 year lease to the Bristol Port Company.

The Marsh and Quay, a large working class area of the town around the docks and a major part of the town's history, was demolished in the early 1980s.

Historically part of Lancashire, Bootle's economy has been centred around the docks and their associated industries for decades.

During 1867 a viaduct was constructed from the north wall of the dockyard to the south-east corner of Big Whale Island which allowed spoil to be moved from dredging the docks ( part of the expansion of HMNB Portsmouth ), reclaiming the land between Big Whale Island and Little Whale Island, forming the basis of the island as it is today.

After the closure of the upstream enclosed docks, the area was regenerated as part of the Docklands scheme, and is now home to the developments of Canary Wharf.

Originally it was known as Blynesgate and Byllynsgate, and may indeed have originated with a water gate on the Thames, where goods were landed, becoming Billingsgate Wharf, part of the London docks close to Lower Thames Street.

This activity included Blackwall Yard ( two of whose former dry docks can still be seen around the present-day Reuters building ), the Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Company at Leamouth, part of whose works lay in Blackwall, and the Orchard House Yard.

It is part of the London Borough of Newham and is situated in the area of the former London docks on the north side of the River Thames.

Even after the construction of off-river docks, the Pool of London remained an important part of the Port of London.

The Gowanus Parkway, in part replacing the demolished Fifth Avenue Line, was built as an elevated structure over Third and Hamilton Avenues in order to avoid the active docks and industrial areas including Sunset Park, Brooklyn.

The Royal Victoria Dock is the largest of three docks in the Royal Docks of east London, now part of the redeveloped Docklands.

Shipping points grew at multiple locations on the Buffalo Bayou including the port of Harrisburg ( now part of Houston ) and the docks on the Allen Ranch.

She is sometimes loaned to the Horseboating Society and has taken part in several of their events, including British Waterways ' " Coal and Cotton " event, celebrating the Leeds and Liverpool Canal's history of transporting coal from Leeds and Wigan to Liverpool, and taking cotton from Liverpool docks to Leeds.

It was also the owner or part owner of steamers, hotels ( including the Caledonian Hotel at Edinburgh ), docks, and harbours ; and of two canals, the Forth and Clyde Navigation and the Monkland.

Grimsby docks, in later days named " the largest fishing port in the world " ( but also with a large trade in timber ) became part of the Railway at its inception.

Much of this ward, especially the part facing the open sea, is taken up by the Nippon Steel ( Shin Nihon Seitetsu ) foundries, blast furnaces, coaling docks etc.

The Swansea Vale Railway ( SVR ) – founded in 1845 to develop and extend a short tramroad which had been opened nearly 30 years earlier to transport coal down the lower part of the valley to the docks at Swansea – reached Pontardawe in 1860, Ystalyfera in 1861, and Brynamman in 1863.