Swansea and Port Talbot Docks History
Cargo handling at Swansea
The following photographs show some of ther varied cargoes that have passed over the wharves at Swansea.
Loading tinplate at D Shed Wharf using 5-ton hydraulic cranes - 1930s
Working cargo 1945
Loading locomotives with the static 70-ton hydraulic crane (crane out of shot)
Loading steel railway sleepers
D Shed Wharf in the 1940s
Jumbo crane in the cargo shed
Loading Austin 12-4 Ascot Saloon for export to Japan - 1930s
1930s - Ford Anglia and Prefect cars
1935 - Morris 8 series 1 cars
Loading leather to the ss Samdark, May 1945
Loading loco from barge
1948 - Austin A40 Devon and Dorset cars
Loading Austin A40 Devon for export - 1948
The overhead gantry in A Shed
Dockers loading a lorry into the hold, probably 1950s
Loading coal using a breakage sheet
Mobile crane handling tractors for export at D Shed 1954
Vehicles for export in the 1950s
Discharging Zinc concentrates
Dock Foreman Albert Palmer with 45-ton Mack truck from USA discharged from m.v. Coventry City - 1967
13 Ton propeller for aircraft carrier H M S Hermes loaded aboard the mv Tara in 1987
Loading steel coils for export – D Shed Wharf
Loading steel coils for export – D Shed Wharf
Loading tinplate for Bombay – m.v. Jalakendra, A Shed Wharf c.1975
Discharging cotton bales from India – m.v. Jalakendra, A Shed Wharf c.1975
Discharging cotton bales from India – m.v. Jalakendra, A Shed Wharf c.1975
Receiving coal by lorry at 4 Quay Wharf for shipping
Aluminium slabs on D Shed Wharf