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Captain J L Vivian Millett

 

A Letter by J L Vivian Millett

 

Dispatch in The Port of London

 

To The Editor of The Times

15th November 1923

Sir,

As complaints have been made in various papers recently regarding the slow dispatch given to steamers in The Port of London, particulars of the working of a steamer discharging at our deep-water jetty at Purfleet may be of interest to your readers.

 

The SS CRANLEY with reels of paper shipped by the Anglo-Newfoundland Development Company Limited and consigned to the Daily Mail and Daily Mirror Companies, berthed at our jetty at 3 am on Saturday, November 3rd, and sailed again at 5 am on Tuesday November 6th, having, in the meantime, discharged 4,441 tons weight, working as follows ...

 

Saturday Nov 3, 3hours, 572 tons;

Sunday Nov 4, 7 hours, 1,448 tons

Monday Nov 5, 12 hours, 2,421 tons

Being a total of 22 hours.

 

One thousand nine hundred and fifty tons went direct to rail trucks, and the balance to craft, and the ship was discharged at an average rate of 202 tons per working hour. Messrs Scruttons Limited were the stevedores. This is only one of the many instances of quick dispatch given to steamers at our wharf, and we consider it necessary to call attention to the fact, as otherwise opinions may be formed as to the facilities of the port, which are based upon partial knowledge of the facts.

 

Yours Faithfully,

Purfleet Wharf and Saw Mills, Limited.

J L Vivian Millett,

Managing Director.

 

 

CRANLEY

4,644 grt

Built 1903  D & W Henderson, Glasgow

For Century Shipping Co, London.

1906 Renamed CAMETA; sold to Belgium.

1908 Renamed CRANLEY; Century Shipping Co, London. 

1915 Anglo-Newfoundland Steamship Co (Donaldson Bros Ltd, Mngr)

1916 Anglo-Newfoundland Development Co Ltd (Donaldson Bros Ltd, Mngr)

1931  8^th January : Sold to T.W.Ward; Scrapped at Briton Ferry.

 

 

Raymond Forward