Posted by Andrew Craig-Bennett on February 05, 2012 at 09:03:53 user ACB.
In Reply to: problem with dates posted by Ed Kiser on January 29, 2012 at 15:07:34:
These are the ports that the Gustav Erikson square rigger POMMERN dischanged at after she left the Chilean nitrate trade and entered the Australian grain trade - all ports are in Britain and Ireland because of Empire Preference:
1929, Liverpool
1930, Glasgow
1931, Cork
1932, Glasgow.
1933, London.
1934, Hull.
1935, London
1936, Ipswich
1937, London
1938, Belfast
1939, Hull
So WDMTGS must be in 1936.
In reality, she berthed in Butterman's Bay, just below Pin Mill and visible from AR's house on the north shore of the Orwell, and discharged her grain cargo into barges that took it on up river to Ipswich Docks, which she was too large to enter.
I cannot remember how this fits with the three towers of the Chain Home radar station at Bawdsey, which also get a mention.