When the Erie Canal connected the Great Lakes to the shores of Red Hook via the Hudson River in 1825, a new shipping centre was born, and by 1848 more than 800 homes, workers' boarding houses and warehouses had sprung up by the bustling docks.
John Cory was one of the coal owners responsible for the opening of the Barry docks in 1889 - a direct rival of the nearby Cardiff docks which by the outbreak of World War I had surpassed Cardiff as the county's largest coal exporting port.
It is also one of the largest container ports in the country, but is not dominated by its docks, and the town has its attractive areas with wide, tree-lined roads leading to the centre.
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In the early days of capitalism a handful of joint stock investors would gather on the docks by their ship and discuss how much tea and spices they would buy.
The pair tracked the bell down to a warehouse in Avonmouth Docks which is owned by the company.
Croc escapes from prison, and hides out at the Gotham docks and later is chased by Batman into the sewers.
The lobster rig, owned by Louis Benitto, the man at the helm, docks in a marina in Brooklyn's Gerritsen Creek.
The band's hell-raising antics proved less popular with other parts of the aristocracy and the tour ended with them being chased to Southampton docks by a furious, shotgun-wielding Lord Harrington, whose daughter the lead singer had been romancing.
Up to 100 jobs will be created at docks on the Humber owned by Associated British Ports (ABP), it has announced.
The story that as a teenager she sold fruit on the docks of Lisbon, capturing the hearts of her customers with her singing, was willingly believed by those who adored her.
We also spotted a scientist standing on a cliff, waiting to get picked up by a research boat via crane (there are no docks or beaches on the islands).
Plans to clear silt from Gloucester Docks, using a new type of dredging, have been welcomed by organisers of the city's Tall Ships Festival.
The Greater London Authority, which is being advised by Deloitte Real Estate, said on its website the regeneration project will "make use of the docks' main feature - the water - in a floating commercial and leisure development".
The submarine was berthed at the Eastern Docks on a five-day official visit and had been just been visited by a school group shortly before the shooting.
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