Steam powered conveyor lifts began being used for loading and unloading ships some time in the last quarter of the 19th century.

He invented a sliding bucket used for loading ships and other shipping devices.

By the early 1950s he had his own firm, loading ships.

In 1883 he began a stevedore business employing 500 black dock workers loading and unloading ships.

On the lee side is a lower level rail track, formerly used by trains and cranes for loading ships.

The Greeks would load ships with the wine-filled cones and ship them all over the world.

Grauerort has a 250 m Elbe pier which was used to load ships with naval mines.

The tower overlooked the landings used to load ships with the valuable salt.

"How did my ancestors manage to load ships working like this?"

He worked as a day laborer and a longshoreman, loading and unloading ships.