Snap of a bygone industry (From Dorset Echo)
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Snap of a bygone industry
11:00am Tuesday 24th January 2012 in Looking Back By Ruth Meech
A Dutch vessel called Bermina
INTEREST has been stirred by Paul Dallaway’s picture of a container ship unloading alongside Weymouth Quay in the late 1960s (Quay snap of bygone industry, Looking Back, December 20 2011).
Mick Muncaster has been in touch to say that the ship was a Dutch vessel called Bermina that was chartered by British Rail. Mick used to work on the railways and then, after being made redundant, worked on the quayside at Weymouth.
He said: “When I worked on the railway, you could see the crews of the ships. They never knew our names but whenever they say me walking through town they would call out ‘choo choo, ding ding’ because of the noise the trains made.”
