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Gare Loch, general view, showing Shandon and merchant shipping. Oblique aerial photograph taken facing north.
 
 
Title Gare Loch, general view, showing Shandon and merchant shipping. Oblique aerial photograph taken facing north.
Image reference SPW035647
Date 1931
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District Maritime
Region Strathclyde
Country Scotland
Easting/Northing 224643, 687517

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  • Accoding to the President of the Board of Trade, giving an answer to a question in the House of Commons on 15 September 1931, 743 British vessels of 2,018,000 tons were laid up in Great Britain and Ireland on 1 July 1931. A tenth of those, of 251,000 tons, were laid up in the river Fal estuary in Cornwall.
    The slump in trade began in 1929

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    MB
    Thursday 20th September
    8:42am
  • Given the "attitude" of the various ships and the location I think it is fair to assume that these are idle, laid-up ships waiting for better times in order to resume trading.

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    Onthecoast
    Wednesday 19th September
    3:56pm

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