Shipyard of Green, Wigram and Green, East London

Shipyard of Green, Wigram and Green, between West India Dock and East India Dock, near the Isle of Dogs, East London. Showing two boys spinning oakum (recycled pieces of rope used for plugging crevices in the outside of a ship, to help keep it watertight)

Picture No

12699182

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47675957

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5005px x 4349px (2.6MB)

Credit

Mary Evans Picture Library

Source

Engraving in The Penny Magazine', May 1841, page 211

Date

1841

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1841 Oakum Operatives Plugging Recycled Repair Repairs Spinning Watertight Wigram

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