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Description: | Concept: civilian morale, shipping, aerial view, business / trading / markets, propaganda Description: whole: the image occupies the majority. The title and text are separate and positioned in the lower fifth, in black. All set against a white background. image: an aerial photograph of three docks of the Port of London. text: 1 [Arabic Text] Printed in Great Britain by Thos. Forman and Sons Ltd., Nottingham. [World's largest area of enclosed dock water. The Port of London. The Port of London comprises the tidal portion of the River Thames from Teddington to the sea, a distance of nearly 70 miles, with five large dock systems covering an area of over 4,000 acres of which over 700 acres is water. The docks alone provide 44 miles of quays. The picture shows the King George V Dock, the Royal Albert Dock (right) and (at top) the recently reconstructed Royal Victoria Dock. These three docks form the largest enclosed dock system in the world. As many as fifty ships, totalling upwards of 500,000 net registered tons, can be berthed simultaneously in these docks.] Object: ship, dock, warehouse | Subjects: | poster | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Unknown Printer: Thomas Forman and Sons Ltd, Nottingham | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=5169... | Go to resource |
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