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Hong Kong Loading Coal On Ship By Hand

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Posted 05/28/2011 3:59 pm

Heres Hong Kong photo postcard I picked up today..loading coal on a passenger ship one basket at a time ! the ship was the Dakota and it sank shortly thereafter !! I am going to put her out on eBay !

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Posted 05/28/2011 4:17 pm

Great postcard!

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Posted 05/28/2011 4:20 pm

thanks Nigel, the message portion reads "the Dakota coaling at Nagasaki,Japan before she sank..Coaling is done by Jap women by way of small baskets..their pay is 20 cents per day in American money !"

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Posted 05/29/2011 03:31 am

no pic of back

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Posted 05/29/2011 06:14 am

Good grief, how long must this have taken?

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Posted 05/29/2011 11:06 am

For Rod, address side of coaling ship postcard !

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Posted 05/29/2011 12:46 pm

Nice nice.

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Posted 05/29/2011 1:57 pm

Philb, thanks for showing the postcard. What a way to load coal on a ship.

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Posted 06/10/2011 9:35 pm

i have a 12 dollar bid on the loading coal by hand postcard !!

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Posted 06/21/2011 4:57 pm

Wow... now THAT is a lot of work! I wonder what port didn't have a coal loading facility back then?

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