Swansea, Oil Tanker With Tug, King's Dock 1925
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In 1722 the writer and traveller Daniel Defoe visited Swansea and commented that Swansea was 'a very considerable town and has a very good harbour. There is also very great trade for coal which they export to all the ports of Somerset, Devon and Cornwall and also to Ireland itself so that one sometimes sees a hundred sail of ships at a time loading coal here which greatly enriches the country and particularly the town of Swansea'. There are no sails evident here, but note the 'British Consul' out of London being shepherded into dock by a Swansea tug.
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