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Books > Sport & Leisure > Transport: general interest > Ships & shipping: general interest > General
The 1954 film On the Waterfront brought to life the New York docks
of the 1950s, when it was often said that a ship, usually a
freighter, arrived or departed every 24 minutes, around the clock.
Now, the Port of New York is handling more cargo than ever before,
but all of it containerised. Along the Waterfront, a followon to
Along the Hudson (which looked at passenger ships in the Port of
New York), covers the vast and fascinating fleet of freighters that
once called at New York, including ships and companies that did not
quite make it, such as the Bull Line, Standard Fruit, Torm Lines
and the Booth Steamship Company. In this book, William H. Miller
takes the reader on an evocative trip back to the days of the New
York docks as they were portrayed in On the Waterfront.
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